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Tag Archives: William Burroughs
genet: risk and the safety of ritual
If we were talking only of the prose such as Our Lady and Journal of the Flowers, it might perhaps be possible to sweep past Genet. These books are books of prismatic brilliance, containing scene after scene of bizarre or … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, bernard henri-levy, Bernard-Henry Levy, Edmund White, genet the balcony, hadrien laroche, hans koechler, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, stan persky, William Burroughs
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bernstein: tears and tailspin
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) cheer yourself up and go listen to (steven) jesse bernstein’s “party balloon.” when he put out that record, he made it a point of using his full name. dunno why. nobody ever called him anything … Continue reading
tin tin: the naked hunch
Its a hybrid. An odd juxtaposition of William S. Burroughs and Tintin in X’ed Out, a comic by Charles Burns. … X’d Out is the story of Doug, a young guy with a head injury who has taken to his … Continue reading
hustling those creepy patriarchal fantasies
The packaging of male ego and sexual conquest.How its peddled , this male libido as sublimated women hatred is often a matter of status. Whether its through the latest Stieg Larrson, or Hustler magazine, the ingenuity or lack of subtlety … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks, Charles Baudelaire, Christian Schad, dario saftich, david eisenbach, David Fincher, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Jonathan Kay national Post, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Glenn, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, laurie penney, Otto Dix, pierre bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, stieg larsson, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, Werner Fassbinder, William Burroughs
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one of the boys: men in long black coats
John Lennon was once quoted as saying that Bob Dylan was intentionally opaque in his lyrics so as to position himself as “secure in his hipness”. It is often taken that Dylan provided the Beatles with the understanding of depth, … Continue reading
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Tagged andy greene, anthony scaduto, art blog, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Camille Paglia, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, elliot mintz, Greil Marcus, Heinrich Heine, henry timrod, james damiano, jann s. wenner, jann wenner, John Lennon, johnny cash, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joni Mitchell, joseph heath, Larry Charles, robert shelton, scott warmuth, Steve Jobs, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, William Burroughs
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elusive secrets: you can’t take it with you
The relationship between surrealism and art in Mexico as both intimate and contentious.The surrealist figures and their representation all seem close-knit and entirely of themselves, inhabiting a peculiar world of frozen motion and dark spaces. It is a separate world … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Diego Rivera, Edward Lucie-Smith, Frida Kahlo, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paulhan, maria izquierdo, mexican painting, Pablo Picasso, Paule Thevenin, Samuel taylor Coleridge, William Burroughs
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just don’t call it junk
The things you can find in junk and thrift stores. Repositories of American culture that fly under the radar….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): About twenty years ago I was scouring through a junk store in some forgotten little “used to … Continue reading
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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