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let it be apple
By Art Chantry: this is the second most beautiful record label ever designed (the first being ‘SUN records’, ‘natch). so, who designed it? The hipster guess is Yoko Ono, but it wasn’t her. The idea came from Paul McCartney, Sir … Continue reading
memory almost full: “je me souviens”
Je Me Souviens! Its on the license plate. And it mean I remember. I remember what happened on the Plains of Abraham. The crushing defeat of 1759 that gave England and the English language hegemony in the New World. But … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin West, David Frum, Death of General Wolfe, Durham Report, FLQ Crisis, James Cross, Jean Charest PLQ, Lord Durham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major General James Wolfe, Paul McCartney, Pauline Marois, pierre falardeau, Pierre Laporte, Pierre Vallieres, The Durham Report, War Measures Act 1970, William Pitt the Elder, Wolfe and Montcalm
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church supper
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) On July 6th, 1957, two teenagers—John Lennon and Paul McCartney—are introduced to one another at a fête at the St. Peter’s Church Hall in Woolton, England, where Lennon’s band … Continue reading
don’t look back
walk away and don’t look back. Posted without comment.
imagine if you can: yes!
John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Gary Tillery, John Lennon, knotted gun statue, knotted gun strategy, Marshall Crenshaw, non-violence project foundation, Paul McCartney, Rene Descartes, Ringo Starr, Slavoj Zizek, steve forbert, Tennessee Williams, The Beatles, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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wild things: the kids are alright
Songs from the wood….Forest Boy. The unusual but not unique story of the teenager who ambled out of a German forest speaking broken English and going by the name of Ray seemed to appeal and capture the imagination of Germans … Continue reading
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Tagged andreas grassl, claudia elitok, forest boy, Francis Galton, gersholm scholem, Gershom Scholem, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jean Jacques Rousseau, jean-claude auger, john ssebunya, kaspar hauser, nancy shevell, Paul McCartney, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, romulus and remus legend, roxy music, russell peters, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Werner Herzog
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nowhere men on the block
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) THIS is the single strangest record cover in the history of popular music. it is (of course) the beatles original cover design released on the “yesterday, today and tomorrow’ capitol records Lp in the US back … Continue reading
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Tagged alan livingston, art chantry, beatles the butcher block cover, Brian Epstein Beatles, bruce spizer, david dexter, george osaki, Hans Bellmer, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, robert benson, robert whitaker photographer, The Beatles
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conversation pieces
The collage work of Peter Blake and Jann Haworth remains one of the most iconic works of design in pop culture. But, these types of original work are not created in a vaccum and there was an English tradition of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johann Zoffany, Paul McCartney, Peter Blake, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Robert Fraser, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sir james Robert Fraser, Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir peter blake, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, William Powell Frith
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SOMEONE KEPT MOVING THE DOOR
Nowhere Boy. Everywhere Man. In any examination of John Lennon; mainly because of the exalted, now mythological esteem held, there is a real danger of loss of perspective and sliding into idolatry, hero worship and misplaced identification. The lesson of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Aaron Johnson, Bev Bevan, Brian Epstein, Chris Knight, Cynthia Lennon, D.M. Armstrong, David katz, Gary Tillery, George Harrison, Jane Heap, John Green, John Lennon, Johnny Rogan, Julian Lennon, Matt Greenhalgh, May Pang, Michael Epstein, Nowhere Boy, Paul McCartney, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Stephen Cole, Steven Stark, Yoko Ono
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