Shake your hips
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
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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ahmad Fouad Ashoush, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, Chris Stevens US Embassy Tripoli, Henri Bernard-Levy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mamdouh Ismail, Michael Lewis Obama's Way, Mohamad Morsi, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula arrest, Rene Magritte, Samuel Jackson Obama video, Samuel L. Jackson Obama 2012, Susan Rice U.N.
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Battle of Adrianople, Bob Dylan, Charles Bernstein MOMA, F.P. Marinetti Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Marinetti, Futurist aesthetics, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isotta Fraschini car, Italian Fascism, Italy World War I, Kenneth Burke, Le Corbusier architect, Mussolini newspaper editor, Pierre Bourgeois, Rene Magritte, Sant' Elia futurist architect, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman
Leave a comment
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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Claude Mauriac, Durrel Alexandria Quartet, eugene atget, Francois Mauriac, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Valery, Rene Magritte, T.S. Eliot, The Art of Noise, Walter Benjamin
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, Chateaubriand, colnaghi, francois gerard, Jean Jacques Rousseau, joseph chinard, madame recamier, Maximilien Robespierre, mirabeau, mme de Stael, Mme Germaine de Stael, Montesquieu, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, prince august of prussia, Rene Chateaubriand, Rene Magritte, rene magritte madame recamier de david, Robespierre
Leave a comment
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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.m. cassandre, alexey brodovitch, american editorial illustration, Andre Breton, art chantry, graphic design, harper's bazaar, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Raoul Dufy, Rene Magritte, Salvador dali, Surrealism
Leave a comment
COMMENTS