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rat fink
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) ED ROTH (given the name”big daddy” by one of his model kit clients) is one of those iconic pop culture figures of the last half-century. there is an awful lot of things that we take for … Continue reading
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Tagged AIGA, bill selby, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, glen bray, howie pyro, jamie hernandez, Kenneth Howard, kenneth howard von dutch, knott's berry farm, kustom kulture, manwell pin striper, matt groening, michael manwaring, Milton Glaser, nathan gluck, peter bagge, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, stanley miller, steve heller, Steven Heller, Tom Wolfe
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poster boys
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) …here’s another franko poster that really blew my socks off. i’ve never seen anybody do anything remotely like this before or since. for a ‘second color’ on this poster, he literally dipped his hand in red … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, bette midler, bumbershoot, frank edie, franko posters, gorilla rose, manhattan transfer, New York Dolls, penelope houston, punk rock history, Steven Heller, the dils, The Ramones, tomata du plenty, Ze Whiz Kidz
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back to brown paper bags
Before the late 1930′s record albums were said to have resembled tombstones: plain brown sleeves with the name of the artist stamped onto the cover.Then came a new direction, the formation of a new axiom that was not always true, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.m. cassandre, adrian dannatt, album cover art, alex steinweiss, alexey brodovitch, bob cato, dave brubeck, Helen Levitt photography, Janis Joplin, jim flora, Mati Klarwein, neil fujita, Robert Crumb, rudolph de harek, s. neil fujita, Steven Heller
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missing the klassic kvetching…
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) A recently departed friend of mine, Nathan Gluck, sent me this latest weird little item. first off, nathan was the front desk person at the AIGA (national office) in nyc for over 30 years. he was … Continue reading
cover the musical metaphor
Context is almost everything.And when the two are in harmony you have a magical visual language… He was one of the pioneers in creating the record album cover; an artistic approach to packaging beginning in 1939, that incorporated free-form design … Continue reading
the cult of the ugly: optimism of a lost language
Homegrown graphic design. The real deal. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Take a good look at this thing. this is what real home grown American graphic design looks like. This is what American industry created when it needed ‘graphic design’ for their … Continue reading
about the birds and the bees
Its 1972. Smut, murder and death on the streets as well as the killing fields of Vietnam. ….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ) : This is the valentine’s day, 1972, issue of the legendary SCREW magazine (cover by “Babe” – a … Continue reading
born modern
He proclaimed that he was “born modern”. Alvin Lustig and a feature image that looks somewhat inspired from the Henri Matisse cutouts from his post-war period.Or maybe it was Matisse was inspired by Lustig for his “Jazz” series. quite possible.Other … Continue reading
futurism: hygiene for the unwashed
In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bonfire of the Vanities, Fellini, Fellini Amarcord, Filippo Marinetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Frederico Fellini, Futurism, Italian Futurist art, Kerry Bolton, Luigi Russolo, Nataly Goncharova, Steven Heller, Umberto Boccioni, Walter Benjamin
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life on parade: playing dress up
It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag
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