Doug Moran Prize Winners-
• March 11, 2008 • 3 CommentsPosted in Analytical Consciousness, art, Art & Portraiture, art and society, Art History, Art News, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Australian Artistes, Authenticity, Beatitude, Bohemian Ink, Claire Busuttil-Bridge, community, contemporary art, Contemporary Writers, creative writing, creativity, culture, Culture & Art, culture consumption, dissemination of images, emerging arts movement, Eros, exhibits, Figurative Imagery, fine art, galleries, Intellectual Milieu, International Art/Exhibits, international exhibitions, opinions, Painting, self-referential, Spontaneous Prose, traditional painting, Word & Image
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Satrapi’s Comic-Strip Memoir comes to Life-
• December 25, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in 'Persepolis', Aeolic Word pais, America & Middle East politics, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, anthropology, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Anti-war, Anti-War protests, anxiety of Tehran, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art Threat, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, autobiographical comic-strip, avant-garde cinema, Ayatollah & Khomeini, Bande Desinee, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, bibliophile, Bohemia, books, brutality of Taliban era, chadors of females in Iran, children's health, cinema, citizenship, Civil Disobedience, civil unrest, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, corruption, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, Cultural Shifts, culture, Demetrius Phalereus, democracy, Democracy politics, diptych prints, disparate collection of voices, dissemination of images, Docu-drama, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, European alternative culture, Exiled life, fanatical Islamists, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Foreign Film, free-speech, freedom, Freedom as Birthright, French Bourgeoisie, Fundamentalists, gender equality, global politics, Good vs Evil, government, graphic artist/art, Graphic Novel, Hellenic Knowledge, History, human rights, humanity, Hypatia, idealism, ignored genres, imposition of the veil, Independent press, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, intolerance & superstition, Iranian Life, Iranian Revolution, Islamphobe, justice, La Societe Feudale, Laissez Faire Elite, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, left-wing intellectuals, liberation, liberty, Life&Death, Light & Darkness, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Lycee Francais, Marjane Satrapi, Marxist, mass protests/demonstrations, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, Muslim extremists, Muslim feminists, nihilism, no-nonsense feminism, Novelist, oppression, Oppressive Politics, Pathos, Peace, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, political dimensions, Political History, political themes in art, politics, Politics of Confrontation, popular culture, post-punk cult, Post-War decay, pre-post Revolution/Iran-Tehran, punk rock, pyschology, race, radical feminism, radical Islamists, religion, religious zealots, rhythmical grumbles, rules of the mullah, Shah dictatorship, social critique, symbolism, Symbolist, technology, theatre, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, travel, Tyranny, unjust hierarchy, vernacular modernism, Video art, visceral reactions to the veil, Voice of Dissent, war-torture-execution, Wealth vs Poverty, Word & Image, World Cinema
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Printmaker Gems at the NY Public Library-
• December 10, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in "war criminal", Aeolian dialect of Greek, Akademie der Kunste, American Surrealism, Analytical Consciousness, anti-establishment, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art Anthologies, Art History, Art Threat, Art&Design, Art&Poetry, Artforum, Artistic Genres, artists, Authenticity, Banksy, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beat Poets, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, Branding of Politics, collectives, community, contemporary art, contemporary printmaking, Contemporary Writers, Corporatorcracy, counterculture, creative writing, creativity, critical media, culture, culture consumption, Dharma Beat Poet, diptych prints, disembodied poetics, dissemination of images, Dissemintion of popular culture, drypoint portraits, E.V. Day, emerging arts movement, Eros, existentialism, feminism, Feminist critique/criticism, fine art, Fotografos, galleries, gender&sexuality, government, graphic artist/art, Hellenic Knowledge, Homoerotica, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Iconic Imagery, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, Intellectual Milieu, Linguistics, linocuts, Literary coterie, literature, lithography, Marshall Reese, masculine&feminine energies, Media Frenzy, media squall, Media Wonks, Milwaukee artists, Milwaukee writers, modernist women writers, Multiple Interpretations, Nora Ligorano, opinions, patriarchy, phalli of Priapus, photographic portraiture, Pleiades, political satire, political themes in art, politically inflammatory, politics, popular culture, Printmakers, printmaking history, progressive politics, protraiture, Public Art/Spaces, satirical art, social criticism, social critique, symbolism, technology, technology of photography, Video art
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Seydou Keita-
• October 31, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in art, art and society, artists, books, community, creativity, culture
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Hossienis’ Kite snags but isn’t cut…
• December 8, 2007 • Leave a CommentPosted in Afghan society, Afghanistan, Akademie der Kunste, America & Middle East politics, American Artists, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Analytical Consciousness, ancient languages, Anthologies, anti-Muslim Kristallnacht, Apocryphal, art, art and society, Art&Design, Artistic Genres, Authenticity, Avadha, barbarians, Beat Generation, Beat Genres, Beat Literature, Beatitude, bibliophile, Bohemia, Bohemian Ink, books, brutality of Taliban era, cinema, civil unrest, Coffee House Press, collectives, community, conspiracy against democracy, creative writing, creativity, critical media, culture, culture consumption, dactylic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, democracy, Democracy politics, desi-lit, Dharma Beat Poet, Diane di Prima, disparate collection of voices, Dissemintion of popular culture, Emancipation from Tribalism, Ephemeral Memory, Eros, Ethics, ethnic violence, experimental writing, fear of reprisal, Feminist critique/criticism, fiction vs reality, filmmakers, Fotografos, freedom, gender equality, geopolitical, global politics, government, Hellenic Knowledge, Hermetic & Esoteric traditions, History, Hollywood Behemoth, Hubris, human rights, Hypatia, hyperrealistic, Idiosyncratic politics, Independent press, Independent/Progressive publications, India-Pakistan relations, Information Suppression, Intellectual Milieu, international affairs, Iraq policy, Islamphobe, justice, Kabul, Khaled Hosseini, La Societe Feudale, liberation, liberty, Library of Ptolemis, life, Life&Death, Linguistics, Literary coterie, literature, Ma Sita, Media Wonks, memoirs, Middle East politics, modernist women writers, monculture catastrophe, Muslim extremists, Novelist, Oppressive Politics, Pakistan, photographic portraiture, Photography, photojournalism, Platonic Idealism, Pluralist Democracy, Poetess, Poignant Themes, political asylum, Political Moguls, Pomona Goddess of Fruits, Post Modernism, Post-Beat Era, Post-War decay, pre-war Kabul, Prose Fiction, psychopathology, pyschology, race, radical Islamists, religion, social critique, social philosophy, symbolism, The Kite Runner, travel, Tyranny, UNHCR, unjust hierarchy, Voice of Dissent, World Cinema
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