Tag Archives: William Morris

utopia: machines triumphant

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Dave

Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells When the Sleeper Wakes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karel Capek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler Erewhon, William Morris, William Morris News From Nowhere | Leave a comment

The Eden-ites

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Dave

The Garden of Eden. The first Utopia. Throughout time people have gotten impatient about waiting for the rapture; dabbled in nihilism to prod the redemption; in general, a complete dissatisfaction with the world as it is leading to fervent imaginings … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Aldous Huxley, edward bellamy, Etienne Carjat, Jules Verne, Leon Benett, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Utopian novels, William Morris | Leave a comment

wright time wrong place: buy the cow

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Dave

Frank Lloyd Wright was a foe of the academicians in his youth. He later grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. The end result of all this was the Guggenheim Museum. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ezra stoller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright attitude to art, Frank Lloyd Wright cubism, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style, Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, Guggenheim Museum, Jackson Pollock, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Robert Jordy, Stravinsky, William Morris | Leave a comment

no indulging in frenchite pastry for the puritan

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Dave

Frank Lloyd Wright saw the galleries and museums of Chicago as prison houses of gesture and anecdote, all cast in forms of photographic artificiality. He told one audience,” nature is never right for a picture, that is, not ready made.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Cotton Mather, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright Renaissance Art, Frederick William MacMonnies, Kenyon Cox, LEGO Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, William Morris | Leave a comment

atmospheric dilemmas

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: DON’T GET LITERARY WITH ME, BUSTER! A sampling of novels I’ve done with a more classic, mostly atmospheric intent… Blood Acre Viking, 1998 Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes Photograph: Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/ICP, New York at Night, 1942 Art … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged arthur fellig, iris murdoch, jesse marinoff reyes, jonnie miles design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art supplies, paul buckley, peter landesman, peter landesman blood acre, Weegee arthur fellig, William Morris | Leave a comment

wandering into modernist territory

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i have this wonderful book called “books for our time” , edited by marshall lee, with written contributions by herbert bayer, merle armitage, john berg, s.a. jacobs, ernst reichl and a forward by george nelson … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged AIGA, Aleister Crowley, alvin lustig, art chantry, bradbury thompson, elbert hubbard, ernst reichl, george nelson, george nelson modernism, gustav stickly, herbert bayer, jack parsons, Jan Tschichold, John Berg, Karl Rove, kenneth anger, L. Ron Hubbard, marshall lee, marshall lee design, max bill, merle armitage, Paul Klee, Paul Rand, s.a. jacobs, Saul Steinberg, typography, wallace berman, william golden, William Morris | Leave a comment

the wilde ones

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

The archetype of the socialist intellectual. The keen eyed observer, but missing a few pieces that would temper an interest in the problems of society with a less poetic palette of sweeping verse. Nonethless, there are some profound insights here … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Florine Stettheimer, French Revolution, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Jacques Rousseau, john steuart curry, oscar wilde socialism, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Hart Benton, William Morris | 1 Comment

happiness is a warm bun

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Dave

Utopias have been around since The Fall, animating messianic visions of going back to the garden. There seems to be a seat-seated urge to look back and be captured by the past to borrow the Satchel Paige quote; to go … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, David Teniers, George Orwell, George Woodcock, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, H.G. Wells, Nicolas Poussin, Sir Thomas More, William Morris | Leave a comment

our humble abode: serving the pious dandy?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dave

For Antoni Gaudi, as for the devout in the Middle Ages, almost anything in the universe could be read as a religious symbol. The Sagrada Familia is symbolic not only in its profusion of figurative sculpture and its conventional Christian … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andre Breton, Antoni Gaudi, Art Nouveau, Barcelona architecture, Christian Perfectionism, Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Gaudi, Janet R. White, Louis I. Kahn, Mies van der Rohe, Picasso, sagrada familia, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, William Morris | Comments Off

bending and twisting under desire’s distorting pleasures

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Dave

Antoni Gaudi was the great outsider of modern architecture. He was likely the inspired freak some detractors claimed, but he was also the father of an organic emotional style and ultimately a supreme artist…..In spite of these efforts at rehabilitation, … Continue reading →