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Tag Archives: Roy Lichtenstein
revolutionary bluff: pseudo event and image object
It began with Marcel Duchamp. From there it was down the slippery slope to the avant-gardizing and idealizing of the commodity as a form of esthetic entertainment. The inevitable evolution of market economics to recycle the commodity into various conceptual … Continue reading
the decorators: artistic purity?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) yesterday i wrote an essay about the shep fairey thing. as ususal, there were opinions tossed around all over the place. that subject is ripe for opinions – all of them lame except my own … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american graphic design, Andy Warhol, art chantry, graphic design, Jeff Koons, Keith Harring, Keith Herring, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Rand, Roy Lichtenstein, Shepard Fairey, Shepard Fairey Joe Strummer, stefan sagmeister
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conceptual pradoxes: mock logical ironies
His paintings are enigmatic, or are they? hermetic, sometimes didactic, not exactly pop art, nor even op-art, nor anti-art. Also enigmatically, they are regarded as some of the most influential works of the post WWII period. Success is the most … Continue reading
debunking the image
But Greenberg, in 1939, could not have foreseen was that the so-called avant-garde would adot the characteristics of the kitsch art he perceived as being endemically mutable to the forces of totalitariansim. Later, he arrived at a slightly different conclusion, … Continue reading
burying the dead ends
The avant-garde revolution was over. Ironically, their work also signified the end of avant-gardism and the onset of post-modernism. The avant-garde had become history. Its contradictions, the emptiness, the triumph of form over substance, essentially its transformation into rote kitsch … Continue reading
coke: the it and id of it all
Pure nothingness.The embracing of empty contradictions. The fraternization of impossibilities. The essence of nothingness.Kitsch. It comes from a German word, or even perhaps Yiddish, to denote bad taste. In inexhaustible supply of cheap images to pacify the longings of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, billy wilder coca cola, herbert leupin, jacques-Alain Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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kitsch and the scandal of discovery
Maybe its about our ingrained habits of denying what we know, but don’t want to know.What could be termed disavowal. A dark, musty zone between knowing and unknowing. There is nothing sexually overt in John Currin’s paintings, an absence of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Gerhard Richter, john currin, John Haber, kim levin, Lucas Cranach, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Norman Rockwell, rachel feinstein, Robert Hughes, Roy Lichtenstein
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moods for moderns
Modernism has become retro…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): For my money, the philosophical dialog of ‘modernism’ is probably the most important and the single most interesting and intriguing intellectual/creative discussion of the last century, maybe even in the history of … Continue reading
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Tagged american design culture, american design history, american graphic design, Andy Warhol, el lissitzky, el lizitsky, frank stella, frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Lester Beall, modernism, Paul Rand, Pushpin design, rauchenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, william golden
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