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killing time club: edumacation
by Art Chantry: this is an advert for one of those horrible “TIME, INC.” book clubs from the 1960’s. i don’t know how long it was around (the oldest examples i have are from the mid 1960’s). it was one … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alan E. Cober, Aldous Huxley, alexy brodovitch, American illustration 1960's, antonio frasconi, art chantry, Dylan Thomas, Jacob Landau, James McMullen, James Thurber, Joseph Low, leo & diane dillon, Louis di Valentin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel West, Paul Hogarth, ronald searle, seymour chwast, Thomas Jefferson, Thrift Store Collectibles, Time Inc. book clubs, Time-Life magazine, tomi ungerer, TRP books
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dark street notes
In Edward Adler’s Notes From a Dark Street the materials of common contemporary existence on the Lower East Side – circa late 1950’s- have been ordered and transmuted into a terrible cosmography far transcending its naturalistic events. The novel’s aesthetic … Continue reading
looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY
Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Thurber Carnival, Damon Runyan, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Freud, Henry James, Homer, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Hutcheon, Mark Twain, Nabokov, Nathaniel West, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Auster, Peter Sellers, Ring Lardner, Salinger, Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, The Catbird seat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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LAUGHING WITH THE SUB-LITERARIES IN DIXIE
Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alex Gross, Artemus Warde, Beverly Hillbillies, Bret Harte, Constance Rourke, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, George Washington Harris, Grouch Marx, Guy Owens, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joan Miro, Johnson J. Hooper, Mac Hyman, Mark Twain, Marx Brothers, Max Ernst, Nathaniel West, New Yorker, Otto Dix, Paul Newman, Ring Lardner, Thomas bangs Thorpe, Walker Percy, Walter Blair, William Faulkner, William Tappan Thompson
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