Camino Camp

Breaking news: the president has covid! It took a while to post, but in this episode your counselors chat about Sweaty Walt Whitman, Lodge 49 and Zen.

Dream with us as we consider the works of Andre Breton and his Surrealist coven. Check out the Manifesto of Surrealism and apply the SECRETS OF THE MAGICAL SURREALIST ART to your own society today!

Bust out the hemp bracelets, we're back at Christian camp. Paul describes how Giotto spread the humanist vision St. Francis to the masses of disgusting, illiterate peasants and helped spawn the Renaissance.

We're camping with the Italian Futurists. Were they fascists or were they just in their twenties? Marinetti gets drunk and crashes into some fluid. Ben rolls coal. Paul swirls a glass of finely aged vino. We read from Manifesto of Futurism and Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto.

Your counselors are talking Caravaggio, Italian master and absolute pimp.

Your camp counselors talk about Vincent Van Gogh and how you might not have enjoyed hanging out with him. Now everyone wants to be his friend. No texts for this one, but check out "At Eternity's Gate".

We're talking John Berger: lefty art critic, novelist, artist, brit and Black Panther patron. Our guide is his classic book and BBC series "Ways of Seeing".

We talk about the visionary poet, painter and printmaker William Blake. Death of God theologian Thomas JJ Altizer helps us parse the radical theology with his book "The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake".

Ben & Paul talk about American cowboy-painter Jackson Pollock and how the CIA boosted Abstract Expressionism in order to look cooler than Communists.

We draw heavily on "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" by Frances Stonor Saunders.