Tag Archives: Rene Magritte

Apostles of a new order: structural linguistics

The apostles of Structural Linguistics might still have confined their interests to the teaching of foreign languages had it not been for the extremely influential work of Professor Charles Carpenter Fries of the University of Michigan, a prolific writer who … Continue reading

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hunting for heroes

Our present period,at least in the Western world, is in difficulties about its heroes. Heroism, understood as courage in action, we can still recognize and applaud; but the individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age tends to … Continue reading

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its all relative: shades of grey morality

Moral relativity. Does it reinforce the racism and stereotypes that so called progressives seek to eradicate; or is a self-defeating loop where groups are defended as pretext within a struggle within more dominant social classes. The idea of accepting racism … Continue reading

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barry obama: scout’s honor amendment

Its a dogging issue that Obama can’t seem to shake. Appeasement. Its not appeasement in the grand, historical scale of a Neville Chamberlain where he is giving a cart-blanche to destroy the West by leaps and bounds, but rather a … Continue reading

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back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat

F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading

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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

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take five with the marquise

Disrupted momentum.  A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading

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Napoleon and the revolt agianst togetherness

October 1810. The book was censored and then it was banned. So many representations and so much insistence overtaxed his patience. In order to give a definite answer to the petitioners, he took the book up again and lost his … Continue reading

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Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival

“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading

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the dream of the idea: fantasy behind the illusion

It was a time when the world was going terribly wrong. A look at the art of A.M. Cassandre…. by Art Chantry( art@artchantry.com) : This is the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, September 15th, 1939. the cover is by A.M. Cassandre. … Continue reading

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