Tag Archives: Peter Max

hipster tacky: goin’ for unadulterated hackdom

by Art Chantry: all you uber-sophistcated tastemakers and purveyors of “hipster tacky” out there can HAVE your peter max, your walter keane, your dali, your glaser, your tikis, your ‘green lady’ and your ‘painter of light’. when it comes to … Continue reading

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fakin’ it

by Art Chantry: here is another great example of that “fake psychedelic” bubble style illustration that we all love so much (sorry i can’t fit the whole unfolded LP cover on my scanner.). the situation here is not that it’s … Continue reading

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fake psych vibe

by Art Chantry: this is a primo example of what i’m talking about when i mention “fake psych”. there was a period of time back in the mid to late 1960′s where the businessheads in america saw what “them kids” … Continue reading

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tretchie and chinese girl

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this image is one of the thrift store standards of american kitsch. it’s right up there with the ‘big-eyed’ paintings of walter and margaret keane (or any of the legion of copycats). it’s up there … Continue reading

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getting tearful: shmaltzy fantasy images

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i have a whole stack of old magazine covers in a cardboard box. among them are an awful lot of ‘saturday evening post’ covers of the past. all those shmaltzy fantasy images of an american … Continue reading

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graphic standard disposable

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) there was a brief period of time in america when this is what hip, cool ‘cutting-edgey’ avant-guard graphic design looked like. it was highly illustrative, hand rendered, colorful to the point of psychedelic and self-consciously … Continue reading

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so when in goinesville

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is a poster by david lance goines. back in the 1970′s, when his poster fame was reaching it’s peak, this guy was as famous and ubiquitous as peter max was in the 1960′s or … Continue reading

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muckrakers and culture stakers

The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading

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decorative design about decoration

by Art Chantry ( art@artvhantry.com) Cool as meaningless decor….hated nest ( magazine). thought it was really really bad and ignorantly designed by an amateur . i couldn’t look at it without getting furious at how stupid it was. then everybody … Continue reading

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pop art for mall rats: well executed tripe

“Popular culture has become our common language, and to become fluent in it is, like it or not, a key part of making sense of the larger world” –Andi Zeisler by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) i don’t know who … Continue reading

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