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Tag Archives: The Grateful Dead
trash-culture-ville
by Art Chantry: most of us out there in trashcultureville are very familiar with the legend of the “cheap thrills” record cover. how the band asked robert crumb (their buddy) to draw the cover art. the record company used what … Continue reading
blink of a pop culture eye
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the mid-sixties, just as the ‘british invasion” of the american pop music charts was peaking and the post war baby-boom overkill of teenage culture was reaching a fever pitch – acid hit. in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, haight-ashbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mike Appel, roger corman movies, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Amboy Dukes, The Balloon Farm, The Grateful Dead
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hangin’ with uncle john’s band
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the mid-1980’s. i was asked by a local ‘underground’ art gallery/institution called 9-1-1 gallery to do an exhibit of my poster work (this was in the early 1980’s, years before the world trade … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-1-1 gallery, art chantry, big brother and the holding company, Donovan, haight-ashbury, jacques moiteret, Jethro Tull, john moehring, Ken Kesey, merry pranksters, poster art, Quicksilver Messenger Service, ray collins, The Grateful Dead, the helix seattle, the sky river festival, The Wobblies, tom robbins, walt crowley
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when and waiting:be there now
Psychedelic culture. approaching truthfulness is always a little more complex… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Most people assume that psychedelic culture began in San Francisco and spread outward. I’m not here to disprove that notion. since all documentation starts there in … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Beach Boys LSD-38, bob masse, boyd grafmyre, Jefferson Airplane, joffrey ballet, john moehring, Ken Kesey, maynard ferguson, merry pranksters, Owsley Bear Stanley, poster art, psychedelic posters, scott mcdougall, stanley owsley, The Grateful Dead, tom robbins, walt crowley
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reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who
The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960’s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Penn, Bruce Eisner, California Nature Boys, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe MacDonald, Edmund Burke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Irving Kristol, John Cippolina, John Richter, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roger Kimball, Samuel Beckett, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, William Burroughs
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praises of folly: flights of reason
Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Frank Zappa, Hieronymous Bosch, Irving Penn, James Blunt, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Mark Levinson, Michael Carlson, Michel Foucault, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Vassar Clements
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flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?
It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Andy Warhol, Bruce Eisner, Dennis Oppenheim, Don Mclean, George Bernard Shaw, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Neal Cassady, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Ram Dass, Rich Griffin, Steely Dan, Stewart Brand, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe
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unreason: the sound of one hand clapping
The denunciation of reason has always been the reaction of choice since the sunset of the Middle Ages as a general form of criticism; a manner of dealing with its ambiguity, menace and mockery. Unlike madness which could be rationalized … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Artie Kornfeld, Bill Pester, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, J.D. Salinger, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Michael Lang, Michel Foucault, Neil Armstrong, Owsley Bear Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Vincent Van Gogh
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Attics of their mind
Painters across the centuries, the millennia, have always conjured out of their imaginations, fantastic towers and cities which do not exist. Sometimes a product of the subconscious, and sometimes a liberal artistic freedom, these artists created a dream architecture of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Duc de Berry, Hans Memling, Hartman Schedel, Jean Duc de Berry, Leonardo Da Vinci, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nuremberg Chronicles, Robert Hunter, The Grateful Dead, Tres Riches Heures
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PULLING THE BEARD OF THE KING
“I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albert S. Gerard, Allen Ginsberg, Anton Boisen, Ben Heppner, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Erich Heller, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Maciunas, Goethe, Hegel, Isaac Luria, Jack Kerouac, Jacob Burckhardt, Jacques Lacan, Jake Heggie, James Gillray, James Joyce, John Lennon, Kafka, Karl Marx, Martin Wasserman, Michael Garfield, Michel Foucault, Peter Orlovsky, Renana Elran, Robbe-Grillet, Rudolf Otto, Sanford L. Drob, Shakespeare, Steve Smith, The Grateful Dead, The Last Poets, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Viktor Frankl, Vladimir Nabokov, Yoko Ono
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