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“Dear S_____: I would be happy to manage a circle in hell for artificial...”
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Dec 21st
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A Final Word
[Exclusive to the THERE’S NO ART IN HELL blog] This morning I read an essay by Frank Rich at the NY Times bemoaning the gullibility of the American people over the past decade. I like Rich’s writing. It’s often tough and direct. He’s a guy who obviously tries to get it right and do the right thing. Too bad in today’s article he writes, “If there’s been a...
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 3, PART 6)
> » If you’ve a voice, sing: if your limbs are supple, dance: and please, with whatever you do that’s pleasing. And though drunkenness is harmful, it’s useful to pretend: make your sly tongue stammer with lisping sounds, then, whatever you say or do that seems too forward, it will be thought excessive wine’s to blame. « [Ovid, ibid] » The British historian Arnold Toynbee argued...
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SONG OF THE BUSH
O ARTIST ON YOUR SHAME IS BUILT THE FOUNDATIONS OF TYRANNY RISE UP, RISE UP & SMITE DOWN THE TYRANT THE GROUND ITSELF & YOUR ANCESTORS WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH RISE, RISE TO SMITE HIM DOWN TEAR DOWN HIS CASTLE MADE OF BLOOD & BONE TURN DUST UPON HIS UNMARKED TOMB NEVER MORE WILL HE  CAUSE YOUR HEART TO TREMBLE NEVER MORE WILL HE CAUSE YOUR FAMILY TO SUFFER SEND HIM BACK FOR JUDGMENT TO...
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 3, PART 5)
ZEELIO: The Waltons love Charter schools, apparently! I guess this affection for molding the minds of the young dovetails nicely with the Gates and Broad missions: privatize, standardize, Capitalize and moralize! The way of the American Robber Baron, in the Super Class global society! Why would Obama beef up the NEA to compete with these guys? How did this slip under Salon’s radar? V: The...
Dec 15th
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THERE’S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 3, PART 4)
MILO: While we’re looking at art-related missions, why don’t we peek at the grants of the Walton Family, those great American art lovers? … [After repeated attempts to copy and paste the data for the Walton Family Foundation grantees list, AFH determined that the action was too big, and failed. Therefore, we suggest the reader link to the source page at Media Matters to review this very...
Dec 15th
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 3, PART 3)
>  » “Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes...
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THERE’S NO ART HELL [Unexpurgated, unedited notes... →
[Due to the passing of Dr. McLean, which interrupted the composition and compilation of the text, the MGT has decided to publish the participants notes and additional materials related to Books 1 & 2, and the first 2 sections of Book 3, in the interests of re-siting the discourse into a real-time timeline. There may be some misattribution. If you have any questions, please contact PDnHades,...
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 3, PART 2)
> » A crisis of art Europe, later sixteenth century Round about 1520 all lovers of art in the Italian cities seemed to agree that painting had reached the peak of perfection. Men such as  Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and  Leonardo, had actually done everything that former generations had tried to do. No problem of draughtsmanship seemed too difficult for them, no subject-matter too ...
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 3, PART 1)
»> BOOK THREE WHY THEY DESPISE ARTISTS In a thousand years the kings will proclaim a new and lovely law “We shall not then covet the artist his craft and his feral dream or vision We shall simply un-clutter the studio of our minds to INNOVATE a brilliance beyond… “ » Make promises: what harm can a promise do? Anyone can be rich in promises. Hope lasts, if she’s once...
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 2, PART 6)
> [From a salesperson guide-handout] * Their priorities are all about YOU! All their tools, messages are geared to make your life as easy as possible. * If you want a tool that’s not created, let them know what you need! * If you have used an ad piece or tool in the past and it’s worked well - let them know so they can continue to create them! > ZEELIO: Paul, I am so sorry for...
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THERE'S NO ART IN HELL (BOOK 2, PART 5)
> PDnHades: From my notes: Communication is Perception. Japan is perceptual. If a soul howls in Hell, and nobody on earth hears it, is that howl a sound? Japan is not Hell, but… Will get back to you. Legs are burning. > [A Facebook comment] Mike Darnell: I keep on wondering about the slogan you’ve chosen for this line. I’m not so sure there’s no art in hell. People...
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BOOK 2, PART 4
> Dear Joan, I suggest you read the comments section attached to Stephanie Zacharek’s review of “The Road.” The textual spanking Zacharek received, before Salon pulled the plug on the reader input at 95 comments, reinforces my argument that your magazine is engaged in a destructive, quasi-genderized campaign against art and literature. Here’s one comment that serves as a...
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“Art Free? As competition for eyeballs becomes more intense online, the...”
–  Andy Deck (www.andyland.net)
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BOOK 2, PART 3
> [This book is dedicated to] Dr. William D. McLean Dr. William D. McLean, 80, of Beckley passed away Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Born Dec. 10, 1928, in Beckley, he was the son of the late David Waddell and Margaret McTaggart McLean. Dr. McLean graduated from Hampten-Sydney College and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He served his internship at Cook County Hospital...
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BOOK 2, PART 2
> From January on until the final outrage - the burning of the tent colony in Ludlow - my ears wearied with the stories of brutality and suffering. My eyes ached with the misery I witnessed. My brain sickened with the knowledge of man’s inhumanity to man. It was, “Oh Mother, my daughter has been assaulted by the soldiers - such a little girl!” “Oh, Mother, did you hear...
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Truth Meets Lie (#2) →
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:18 PM [Comment at Salon.com] Faux-Arty? Nice that Stephanie Zacharek knows that faux art exists. Too bad she hasn’t figured out that she writes faux critique dissembling it. Also, the gender jabs are offensive. Was Drew Barrymore’s “Whip It” better art than Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road? Zacharek apparently thinks so. This...
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“I like that the art world isn’t regulated.”
– Jerry Saltz (New York Magazine, Culture Vulture, “Art Moralists” 11/15/09)
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