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Tag Archives: Ralph Ellison
the blue flame this time
James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, cornel west, Gustav Landauer, Helen Levitt photography, James Baldwin, James Cone, james h. cone, john dewey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison
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romney care: tax evasives of the leisure clasp
One of the key themes in our ongoing public discourse is taxes. Mitt Romney’s income tax filings and the continuing collateral damage from banker bonuses and bailouts have made this an open sore with the pain shooting to the dark … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Ben Shahn, Charles White, charles white art, irving norman, jeff wall, john steuart curry, Lloyd Blankfein, Mitt Romney 2012, Paul Krugman, Ralph Ellison, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Hart Benton, Thorstein Veblen, William Wellman
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flowers of evil : herman cain dada
In his debates he looks almost bizarrely overconfident,brazenly recycling the same answers and obsessed with the populist mantra of 9-9-9- as if its a toll free number where you can order the godfather himself for home delivery. Its always ladies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andre Breton, Burt Lancaster, Charles Baudelaire, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka, herman cain, Hugo Ball, jacob bendian, Kurt Schwitters, leslie savan, Marcel Duchamp, marcel jenco, mark bloch, Mel Brooks, nick searcy, Ralph Ellison, Richard Huelsenbeck
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a sagging and bagging story
The pull up your pants law. With a recession and lots of people with extra time on their hands. The law is part of a more complex social issue that says more about white culture’s response to hip culture, but … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged ACLU, Al Jolson, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin baggy pants, dr. keith clark, gary siplin, Heinrich Hoffmann, jim crow, NAACP, pull up the pants law, pull up your pants law, Ralph Ellison, schave and reilly, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, vaudeville, vaudeville baggy pants
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a tribe called zest
What happens when a cultural expression becomes little else than a product to peddle, one shorn of any radical political agenda. Does hip hop music feed what Bell Hooks has asserted is an ethnic enlivening of experience within mainstream white … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged a tribe called quest, Bell Hooks, buddy esquire, dr. keith clark, harry allen photos, harry benson, hip hop culture, mark seliger, mark wheeler, michael rapaport, Oprah Winfrey, phase 2, Ralph Ellison, The Last Poets, wu-tang
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