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Death, and the Dead?

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Everybody is individual in life or death. This is what I can see in the art of Rudimetary Peni singer Nick Blinko: http://www.deathrock.com/rudimentarypeni/main.html. I don’t fully understand why it’s such a “big deal” if someone has not studied arts, but is an artist. I know quiet a few people who have studied arts, but who [...]

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Jackie Ormes, brilliant cartoonist

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Torchy in Heartbeats “Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist”: http://www.jackieormes.com/ a biography by Nancy Goldstein “Jackie Ormes’ cartoons often responded to events that were important to the black community, such as the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. Till was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.” From [...]

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Gee Vaucher on 96gillespie.com

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Gee Vaucher on 96gillespie.com http://www.96gillespie.com/artists_profiles/vaucher.htm See works of Gee Vaucher on 96gillespie. I always admired her work (since I became a huge fan of the famous Crass in 1983 I guess). Gee’s ART is so critical, political and aesthetically highly expressive. I believe her ‘Animal Rites’ works, convey something about the gap that exists in [...]

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