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t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
across the great divide: leave it behind
Early in the twentieth century Oswald Spengler, in The Decline of the West, wrote of the irreversible historical pattern of growth, flowering, withering, and decay that has marked the destiny of every known civilization and is, he said, now undoing … Continue reading
father of the beats
There was decidedly an air of wildness about him….At first Lindsay attracted little attention. Then, in 1913,as his poetic scope widened, he began intoning his verse in ragtime rhythm, in what he called “Higher Vaudeville” presentations. He was convinced that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Agnes Scott College, American Poetry, Billy Sunday, Elizabeth Ruggles, Helen Sewell Johnson, Louis Untermeyer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sinclair Lewis, T.R. Hummer, Vachel Lindsay, W.B. Yeats, William Dean Howells
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thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong…
1922…People were dubious about spending twenty-five cents a ticket just to see a poet, but then they tended to be somewhat softened, mollified, by the fact that Lindsay also delivered temperance lectures which appeased the many dry-fanatics at the time. … Continue reading
the look of culture falling apart
by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Al Hansen, Alison Knowles, art chantry, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Snyder, Film Culture magazine, George Brecht, george macunias, george macunias fluxus, Joe Jones, John Cage, John Giorno, John Lennon, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Olga Adorno, Robert Watts, Takehisa Kosugi, W.B. Yeats, Yoko Ono
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don’t mess with the holy fool
Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton’s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alan moore, Albert Einstein, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Potter, Billy Bragg, Donald Trump, G.K. Chesterton, jim jarmusch, john michell, John Milton Paradise Lost, mike goode, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, todd mcfarlaine, W.B. Yeats, William Blake
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eye of the tyger
William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading
posing with the circus animals
A dual nature. The intertwined carnality and nobility. William Butler Yeats. With age, his imagery turned sensual and direct. A wild wicked old man he would call himself, who regretted the celibacy of his youth and for whom the act … Continue reading
liberating the line: painting the bestial floor
Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading
forever young: eternal trial
Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading
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Tagged aubrey de Grey, Byron, elixir of youth, Ernest Hemingway, eternal youth, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Goethe, Hans Holbein the younger, james frazer the golden bough, jesus diaz, John Keats, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Milan Kundera, mitochondrial rejuvenation, n.t. wright, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Feynman, ronald a. depinho, telomere length maintenance, tom merry, W.B. Yeats
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