tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8494921629417456526..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Art, Advertising, History: Boris ArtzybasheffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67000403355497913752011-03-02T14:14:45.249-08:002011-03-02T14:14:45.249-08:00All built up with progress
But I must confess
We c...All built up with progress<br />But I must confess<br />We can deal with rockets and dreams<br />But reality<br />Ain't nothin' said<br />'Cause <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A" rel="nofollow">Freddie's Dead</a><br /><br /><br />(Curtis Mayfield, c. 1973, a quarter-century before The Wire)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18145611649529084152011-03-02T13:52:14.813-08:002011-03-02T13:52:14.813-08:00Curtis,
I can't help remembering what happene...Curtis,<br /><br />I can't help remembering what happened to Curtis Mayfield -- a huge mechanical contraption falling upon and paralyzing him.<br /><br />(It is, in some way I do not yet comprehend, a day for parables.)<br /><br />I've now added a small postscript to the original post, as part of this conversation.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34737188279919764422011-03-02T10:02:30.691-08:002011-03-02T10:02:30.691-08:00When I exercised a few minutes ago, listening to s...When I exercised a few minutes ago, listening to some old Impressions material (and later Curtis Mayfield performances of the same great songs), it dawned on me that the Artzybasheff images probably inhabited my mind because they still seem (for me, especially the WW II ones) so relevant. The old terrifying winnowing is now the new terrifying winnowing. He who gets to stop payment on the last tyrant's check before the end wins. I love seeing this stuff, disturbing as it is. I'm going to show Jane when she gets home from school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89869583955891184732011-03-02T09:18:00.865-08:002011-03-02T09:18:00.865-08:00"I hate to say it, but each of the images rem..."I hate to say it, but each of the images reminds me of my life, at least in recent dreams..."<br /><br />The special terror of the Artzybasheff iconography has to do with the dreams of machines, maybe, Curtis.<br /><br />Through one Hot War and one Cold War Artzybasheff's hallucinated commercial-surrealist agit-prop for the Culture of the Mechanical allows the onus for overwhelming violence, racism, etc. to be passed off conveniently upon the helpful, friendly anthropomorphic assemblages of nuts and bolts that appear as the benign instruments which protect and defend our... what is it exactly? Values? Way of Life?.<br /><br />subject, evidence of inside<br />the picture in a time<br /><br />that is, what comes to pass<br />in passing, is formed<br /><br />The happy days of the machine culture seemed just around the corner, just a moment ago... now, not so much.<br /><br />(In Artzybasheff's non-commercial/non-political graphics, by the way, the Mechanical appears far less benign and protective than simply scary... in the extreme.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84347078724929461792011-03-02T08:50:06.146-08:002011-03-02T08:50:06.146-08:00The wartime Artzybasheff really amazes. I hate to ...The wartime Artzybasheff really amazes. I hate to say it, but each of the images reminds me of my life, at least in recent dreams. I recall the Time images, which in turn recall an era when Time and Newsweek were real magazines that had value. Like the Cold War ending and the Soviet Union crumbling, I never imagined the demise of Time and Newsweek. The Shell ad is too frightening for words, at least for me. I can't imagine putting pen to paper and coming up with that copy. Artzybasheff looks like a nice man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16559587536656157342011-03-02T07:59:14.324-08:002011-03-02T07:59:14.324-08:00Tom,
My goodness, what a slice of time ("Hap...Tom,<br /><br />My goodness, what a slice of time ("Happy Days") --<br /><br />3.2<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible <br />ridge, green motion of leaves on branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> subject, evidence of inside<br /> the picture in a time<br /><br /> that is, what comes to pass<br /> in passing, is formed<br /><br />sunlight reflected in windblown channel,<br />sunlit white cloud above green of ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com