Art Contrarian

A blog about about painting, design and other aspects of aesthetics along with a dash of non-art topics. The point-of-view is that modernism in art is an idea that has, after a century or more, been thoroughly tested and found wanting. Not to say that it should be abolished -- just put in its proper, diminished place.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Covarrubias the Caricaturist

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Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) was a multi-talented man, his activities ranging from cartooning to ethnography, as his Wikipedia entry indi...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Back in Time: Saab 96 Series to the Ur-Saab

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Not long ago Saab, the Swedish automobile firm (not to be confused with Saab, the aircraft manufacturer, though they once were one and the s...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Stark Davis' Lincoln Birds

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In 1928 and perhaps a little before and after, Lincoln automobiles had an advertising campaign featuring their cars against a backdrop of ex...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Molti Ritratti: Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) liked to portray people in his novels and, in turn, apparently didn't seem to mind being portrayed by some of R...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Evolving Airport Terminals

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I'm pretty sure it has been happening at a large airport near you. That's because airports for larger metropolitan areas seem to be...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Blogging Note

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For the last few months I've been on The Big Push, an effort to complete the first draft of a book about the crisis of innovation in Mod...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Frank Xavier, the Other Leyendecker

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Frank (Franz) Xavier Leyendecker (late 1870s-1924), better known as F.X. Leyendecker, was a good illustrator whose work was not as distincti...
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Donald Pittenger
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Undergraduate art major. Ph.D. in Sociology, Demography from a fancy Ivy university. Software system and user interface designer and programmer. Writing about art and design on the Internet since 2005. Email: dbpittenger (at) earthlink.net

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