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sub genius : trust your heroes?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the early 1980’s, the church of the sub-genius was just as “out there” and just as scary fucking dangerous as survival research laboratories. what SRL was doing to technology, the church of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AIGA, art chantry, church of the sub genius, david meyer, david meyer sub genius, dennis p. eichhorn, ed big daddy roth, iivan stang church of sub genius, ivan chermeyeff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michel cronan, ralph caplan, SRL, Steven Heller, survival research laboratories, the rocket magazine
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master of overstatement
An illustrator we don’t get much exposure to anymore: John Osborn. He was not just an illuminator of other people’s texts, but mainly, most importantly, a social critic of penetrating qualities given the social context, mainly Cold War era, he … Continue reading
tin roofs
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In 1955, Tennessee Williams’s now-immortal play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The cover design is by the incomparable Alvin Lustig—New Directions’s house designer/art … Continue reading
powers that are
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) The Beast MacFadden, 1964 Illustration: Richard M. Powers (1921-1996) Despite a monograph of his paintings that was published a decade ago (The Art of Richard Powers; Paper Tiger, 2001), … Continue reading
fight of obstinate visionaries
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) The Lonely Rebels Golden Griffin Books/Arts Inc., 1951 Design: Ladislav Sutnar Collecting three novelettes—Mister Lorenz, The Revolt in Liossa, The Mission—by Czech literary exile Egon Hostovsky (1908-1973). “The predominant … Continue reading
d.s. martin
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Jazz at the Philharmonic, 78 album Stinson (Asch) Records, 1946 Illustration and Design: David Stone Martin (1913-1992) According to Squidoo’s entry on the topic: “The first Jazz at the … Continue reading
kipling the esoteric: the a.r.k. man
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) rudyard kipling is a very famous name in literature. for instance, he was the very first english speaking recipient (and the youngest) of the nobel prize in literature (1907). we all studied him and … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Arthur Rackham, aubrey beardsley, blavatsky theosophy, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, j.j. school of art and industry, kipling the jungle book, lockwood kipling, masonic ritual, Max Ernst, Rudyard Kipling, rudyard kipling illustrator, rudyard kipling manji, Steven Heller, William Blake
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saint paul : step on the hem of his garment
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) …the truth as i see it is that that paul rand had the good fortune to be a great arrogant hustler/salesman. he arrived late on the scene, stole from the best of the best (the pioneers … Continue reading
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