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Category Archives: Art
Emery Blagdon
2013 documentary about “eccentric Nebraska artist”, who died in 1986. Beauty in wire, as referenced to vision of a “healing machine”. Into a zone where one knows one should be. World through my eyes Immobile spin
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Symmetry
Reading older copy of The New Yorker, picked up used from the library, and then focusing on cover: All seeming to fit. Hand perhaps a bit off, but otherwise everything so coloured and ordered. Title: “In The Shade”. Artist being … Continue reading
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Pressed
Wrote about discovering Nancy Reiner, the artist who did the portrait sketch for The Cry of Love, the 1971 posthumous album by Jimi Hendrix, plus the portrait sketch for 1967’s Eric Is Here, by Eric Burdon. In 1968, she was … Continue reading
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Over Sketch
Always liked the cover to Eric Burdon’s 1967 album, Eric Is Here. Wondered who had done the cover. Credit was to Nancy Reiner. Did a search. Amazed to find that she was the artist who did the cover to the … Continue reading
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Incarnate Hero
From The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (1996), where the protagonist is highly cultured and opinionated in that regard, throughout. In this case, discussing dimensions of the River Loire: …not to forget the high skies and broad horizons of … Continue reading
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Public Domain
Came across this image. Said to be from old postcard. Unclear whether it is a painting or coloured photo. One of those where one would like very much to know more about the image, but nothing more is readily available. … Continue reading
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Object II
I have seen the future And it’s coming straight at us Wrote about John Cusack’s views of Hitler and Cusack’s role as Max Rothstein, in Max (2002). The Jewish art dealer who saw talent in Hitler, and encouraged his artistic … Continue reading
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Occupational Self-Sufficiency
Forget about the price tag Seems that many occupations, particularly in the arts, are not occupations to pursue full-time, since one cannot make a living at it, full time. Can cause lots of family pain, pursuing that which is not … Continue reading
Gimlets Slide
In downtown Toronto in the 1970s, there was a higher end strip bar called Gimlets, that appealed to principally male professionals, after work, though sometimes groups of men and women would show up. Went there on more than one occasion. … Continue reading
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Dada to Surreal
Don’t know that much about art or poetry, and less about the latter than the former. Seem to like a lot of William Ronald and Jack Bush, plus some Modigliani. In terms of poetry, can’t think of anybody, other than … Continue reading
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