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the devil in the details
An evolving sense of the devil. In the world of Hieronymous Bosch, synonymous with Northern Renaissance painting where in spite of joys and diversions the known world, the worldview is permeated with tragedy, malevolence and the mysterious. But leaping from … Continue reading
don quixote: erasmian touches
Miguel de Cervantes own account of his captivity by Algerian pirates is borne out by a contemporary who, in a history of Algiers written before Don Quixote had made its author famous, tells us that: According to the testimony of … Continue reading
homegrown or home blown: no name on the bullet
We wish to glorify War — the only health giver of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman. We wish to destroy the museums, the libraries, to … Continue reading
eccentrics: ruling passions
…An eccentric, it has been said, is a logical person in an illogical world. Consider Sir George Fordyce, the nineteenth century British anatomist. Every afternoon at four he would eat his single meal of the day, a huge ingestion of … Continue reading
near death: chasing down a soul
Neither our logical systems nor our senses are tuned to that world. In it, Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” simply dissolves, since it is a habit of quanta both to be and not to be. Here then, is … Continue reading
crossing to ophir: who came first?
Who got here first? Refugees from Atlantis? Phoenicians piloting the children of Israel? Chinese? Egyptians? Or none of them? Is it possible to conceive of the unthinkable with regard to the discovery of America? In 1641 a Portuguese Jew named … Continue reading
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Tagged 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Antono Montezinos Portuguese Jew, King Solomon Ophir, Lord Kingsborough England, Lost Tribes of Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manasseh ben Israel, Mormon Sacred Writings, Pecados artist, Salvador dali, Sargon II Assyria, the Jaredites Mormonism, The Phoenicians travels, Tower of Babel, Wardell Milan
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how sweet it was
by Art Chantry: the two great ones collaborating at last. nice album cover, too. this is from back in 1955 when gleason hired dali to design the cover for his record “lonesome echoes”. that’s the artwork used on the record … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Jackie Gleason, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Salvador dali
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the great ones
by Art Chantry: this is one of those ultra-famous vintage LP covers that never fails to surprise people when they see it. it’s from 1955 and it’s a cover by salvador dali! and what’s even more peculiar is that it’s … Continue reading
collect the gag panels on them
by Art Chantry: this is something else i collect – little corporate booklets of cartoons. basically, big business likes to commission gag comix from cartoonists and publish them in their magazines and advertising. they think that means they ‘support the … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, charles addams, chuck jones, corporate booklets cartoons, Hallmark Cards, jackie onassis, Madame Pickwick, National Lampoon Rodriguez, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb, ronald searle, Salvador dali, Shepard Fairey, spain rodriguez, Winston Churchill
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all fall down
Down the labyrinth with no idea how to get out. Seven ways to the center but only one route out. And at that center is a dichotomy; either a minoutaur lying in wait at the end of the journey or … Continue reading
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Tagged Franz Kafka, Icarus, jean fouquet, Joshua and Jericho, Joshua and the fall of Jericho, Moses Cordovero, myth of daedalus, myth of Daedelus, Pablo Picasso, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Salvador Dali Vermeer
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