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Tag Archives: Peter Max
the powers that be
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) FOR years i collected paperback book covers just for the covers (sort of like how i collect records). especially science fiction covers. to be totally honest, i’m really not much of a SF aficionado. don’t … Continue reading
fantastic… but lousy advertising clip
those culture jammers…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): I really love checking out the early careers of those well known culture jammers. the people whose work is so powerful and so prominent that we take for granted that they’ve always been … Continue reading
aspen: thinking within a box
Aspen magazine. thinking outside the box.as without from within… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is ASPEN Magazine (issue #4, spring 1967) – the magazine IN A BOX!!!! this is the final issue (so far as i know.) each issue was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, angus maclise, art and media blog, art chantry, aspen magazine, don snyder, fluer cowles, frank stella, george lois, gerard malanga, herbert bayer, hetty maclise, ira cohen, Jasper Johns, Jerry Rubin, John Cale, lionel ziprin, Lou Reed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marshall McLuhan, Peter Max, quentin fiore, Shepard Fairey
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mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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well executed mediocrity
graphic decoration. what we learned in school…. by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Back in grade school and even junior high school (mostly called “middle school” these days. apparently somebody thought that being called “junior” anything was damaging to our sensitive … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american graphic design, american graphic design history, art chantry, collage/montage style, contemporary graphic design, Herb Lubalin, john alcorn, lou dorfsman, Peter Max, pushpin studios
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poverty of the soul
The home that Santa forgot. little plastic thingies…. by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): These things creep me out. I associate them with extreme poverty of the soul. It reminds me of cold winter days 50 years ago when I was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alexander samuelsson, american design history, charles candler, coca-cola bottle design, coke bottle design, dr. john styth pemberton, hilary greenbaum, mae west coke bottle, Milton Glaser, oreo cookie design, Paul Rand, Peter Max, raymond loewy, stephen bayley, westinghouse logo, william turnier oreo
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nothing is real: hipster fake psych look
A look at yellow submarine, a pop culture adventure with the blue meanies… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): I know it sounds crazy, but when you ask 99.9% of Americans, “who did the animation in the movie, “Yellow Submarine?”” they say, “Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged al brodax, alan aldridge, art blog, Brian Epstein, Brian Epstein Beatles, Heinz Edelmann, john alcorn, Milton Glaser, norman laliberte, Peter Max, pushpin studios, Roy Lichtenstein, seymour chwast, tad yokoo, Terry Gilliam, victor moscoso
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maxxed out to the max
peter max….. the illustrator next door. Copy. Appropriate. But is there some genuine style? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Everybody is sick of Peter Max, right? He’s become the ultimate cliche of the 1960′s, right up there with peace signs and flower … Continue reading
sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent
Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Deco design, Art Nouveau, Beardsley, dan rowan, david steinberg, dick martin, digby wolfe, Fritz Lang Metropolis, george schlatter, Hal Erickson, Henry David Thoreau, hippie movement, john alcorn, Laugh In, lena horne, Milton Glaser, paul keyes, Peter Max, Richard Nixon, Rick Griffin, robert massin, seymour chwast, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, tom smothers, walden pond, wes wilson
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still figgering it out
Getting beyond psychedelic but hardly nostalgic about Victor Moscoso… Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com ): When I first discovered psychedelic posters back in the late 60′s, I was introduced to them through the work of Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller. The first psych poster … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Roller, Alton Kelley, bauhaus josef albers, edward muybridge, Gary Panter, george hunter, Jack Kerouac, Josef Albers, Ken Kesey, Peter Max, Psychedelic Art, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, s. clay wilson, spain rodriguez, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, victor moscoso, von dutch, watts acid test, wes wilson, zap comix
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