Bookworm on Nov 03 2007 | Filed under: Art
One of my all time favorite books is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. In it, Fussell looks at the World War I through the eyes of the hyper-literate soldier poets and writers whose names we still recognize today: Rupert Brooks, who died before his fellow literary artists began to realize [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Art, Free speech
There’s what I consider an intentionally funny story today about a radio station afraid of reading Howl on the air because it’s afraid it might run afoul of FCC rules governing broadcasting:
Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg’s Beat-era poem “Howl” was not obscene. Yet today, a New [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2007 | Filed under: Art
A few weeks ago, I did a “what is art” post. Aaron Johnson, an artist who uses a cartoon panel for social commentary at What The Duck, must have caught that post, because he was kind enough to send me a link to today’s cartoon. I have to say, “by George, I [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: Art
Frankly, I don’t care if this is art. I think it’s wonderful. As someone who never got past drawing a square or two on my Etch-a-Sketch, I was awestruck by what Jeff Gagliardi has done with the same medium.
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Bookworm on Sep 02 2007 | Filed under: Art
In the old days — pre-camera — I think that it was pretty easy to answer when asked “What is art?”. Art served four major purposes: to elevate God, to aggrandize the rich and powerful, to decorate spaces, and to record images in a pre-photographic era. Some stuff was good, some stuff was [...]
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