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Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 79: Dorf Sex Podcast Crossover in GermanMe in German. Dr Great Art auf Deutsch. Es war spannend und ich habe Spass gehabt. In the Podcast "Dorf_Sex" by Dr Stephanie Meyer and Nicole Blattmann. Ich als Gast. "Zwischen Lust und Leinwand – Ein Ausflug in Kunstgeschichte und Erotik In der ersten Folge unserer speziellen Kunst-, Schauspiel- und Fotografie-Reihe haben wir einen ganz besonderen Gast: Mark Staff Brandl, aka Dr Great Art, Kunsthistoriker und Experte! Gemeinsam tauchen wir ein in die Welt der Kunst und Erotik, diskutieren spannende Themen, von politisch bis feministisch – und bringen ordentlich Power ins Gespräch. Seid dabei, wenn wir d...2025-05-1156 min.jpg)
Dorf Sex13 Zwischen Lust und LeinwandIn dieser Folge sprechen wir, Nicole Blattmann (Künstlerin und Sozialpädagogin) und Stephanie Meyer (Sexualtherapeutin und Ärztin) mit dem international bekannten Künstler, Kunsthistoriker und Kunst-Philosophen Mark Staff Brandl über die Rolle von Sexualität in der Kunst.
Was macht erotische Kunst aus, jenseits von Nacktheit? Warum war Sinnlichkeit in manchen Epochen skandalös und in anderen selbstverständlich?
Mark gibt Einblicke in seine eigene „Mongrel Art“, reflektiert gesellschaftliche Tabus, digitale Zensur und die Freiheit der Kunst.
Ein Gespräch über Körper, Blick, Provokation – und die Frage, was echte Sinnlichkeit im künstlerischen Ausdruck heute bedeuten kan...2025-05-1156 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 78: Art, Metaphor, and PoliticsMy podcast makes a come-back with some slight changes. I will still be talking mostly about art and art history, but will also expand my discussions regularly into visual metaphor, as I did in several recent podcast episodes, based on my recently released philosophy book, A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art, from Bloomsbury Press London. I will also be adding a short "pamphlet" section at the end of each with thoughts about recent politics, as they are so prevalent and dangerous now, and especially when they affect art and the artworld.2025-03-2805 min
Rise Up! The Baker Podcast with Mark DyckArlo Brandl, owner of Tecumseh Bread & Pastry and author of Early RiserArlo Brandl returns to Rise Up! after seven years, still in Tecumseh, Michigan but in a new location on the main street and with a brand new book! In this episode, Mark and Arlo talk about the big move to the main street, why baking alone still works best for him and his family, and they dig into Early Riser, Arlo's new memoir and recipe book. Just like his bakery, Arlo's book is a labour of love and true gift to his community and the baking community at large. There is also talk about Mark's ne...2025-03-191h 06Rise Up! The Baker Podcast with Mark DyckLaura Fessenden - Director of Operations at Moxie Bread Co. in Boulder, ColoradoLaura Fessenden dreamed of being a record executive, but food nosed ahead of music at Moxie Bread Co. in Boulder, Colorado. Starting as a barista, Laura took on more and more responsibility until her mentor and bakery founder Andy Clark died in 2022. Now the overall Director of Operations, Laura and her team are continuing Andy's legacy while building a business that works for everyone, well into the future. There is also mention of Mark's new project, the Bakery Leadership Circle and two new, excellent baking books: Flour is Flavour by Dawn Woodward and Early Riser by Arlo Br...2025-03-051h 01
Executive Office InsightsCorporate Travel Made Easy: Executive Trip Planning Solutions with Savoya148: We explore the intricacies of executive travel planning and how advanced technology is transforming the black car service industry. Our guest dives into what makes executive ground transportation different from ride-share options, emphasizing the importance of reliability, professionalism, and pre-scheduling for high-level clients. We also uncover how innovative tools and proactive communication make life easier for executive assistants, enabling them to manage complex itineraries with ease. From ensuring a smooth airport connection to coordinating multiple stakeholders for seamless travel, this episode provides essential insights into how technology can help you deliver top-tier service to your executives. 2024-09-2545 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Visual Metaphor, William CongerMy recently released philosophy book, A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art, from Bloomsbury Press, features short descriptions of artists and their works which I find important to visual metaphor. Here is one, one of several times I discuss the great William Conger. Get the book and read it! But here is an excerpt. Link to page for my book on Bloomsbury Press: US: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/ Europe: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/2024-06-1604 min
FILMDUDES PodcastMark Hegelau – Gründer The Wants Social | Über Brandbuilding & Social MediaMark Hegelau ist Co-Gründer der Social Media Agentur The Wants Social. Angefangen hat aber alles mit einem lokalen Store in Köln für Sneakers und andere Schuhe, den er zusammen mit seiner Frau Michi Brandl – besser bekannt als @michivonwant – gegründet hat. Als Agentur für Marken mit social first Ausrichtung hat sich die Agency einen Namen gemacht und der Erfolg gibt Mark Recht: Seine Agentur gewinnt Preise, wächst unglaublich schnell und setzt innovative Kampagnen um. Mit dem Wachstum kommen natürlich auch Herausforderungen. Diese Folge ist sehr spannend für Gründer, deren Firma im Wachstum ist...2023-11-0559 min
The Vision Quest Podcast#70 - Nick Brandl - The Jouirney From A Small Town Wisconsin Dairy FarmSend us a textEver wonder what life is like growing up on a dairy farm in Manitowoc, rising before dawn, and learning the tough life lessons that come with it? Experience that and more as Nick Brandl shares his compelling journey from a dairy farm boy to an engaging broadcaster, navigating the world of sports with grit and gumption. Nick not only talks about his early love for golf but also takes us through his high school years to his exciting foray into broadcasting, shedding light on the challenges faced and the lessons learned along the...2023-10-281h 27
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Brandl Interviewed by Dan HillThis is a crossover episode, it is a short interview Dan Hill made on his EQ Spotlight podcast with me, Mark Staff Brandl, about my book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art. Dan Hill’s EQ Spotlight podcast link: https://www.sensorylogic.com/eq-spotlight-podcast Link to page for my book on Bloomsbury Press: US: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/ Europe: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/2023-07-0433 min
Dan Hill's EQ SpotlightMark Staff Brandl, "A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2023)Today I talked to Mark Staff Brandl about his new book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2023).Brandl is an artist and art historian with a PhD from the University of Zurich. He is an Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus at the Art Academy of Liechtenstein and Higher Professional College for Art in St. Gallen, Switzerland. His work has been shown in galleries and museums in America, Europe, Egypt and elsewhere.Brandl is by his own admission an iconoclast, and somebody who mixes philosophical discourse with more polemical “rants” in advocating for cre...2023-06-1532 min
New Books in Literary StudiesMark Staff Brandl, "A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2023)Today I talked to Mark Staff Brandl about his new book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2023).Brandl is an artist and art historian with a PhD from the University of Zurich. He is an Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus at the Art Academy of Liechtenstein and Higher Professional College for Art in St. Gallen, Switzerland. His work has been shown in galleries and museums in America, Europe, Egypt and elsewhere.Brandl is by his own admission an iconoclast, and somebody who mixes philosophical discourse with more polemical “rants” in advocating for cre...2023-06-1532 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 75: Visual Metaphor the Back Cover Last episode, I discussed the ins-and-outs of the front cover of my new book from Bloomsbury Press, A Philosophy of Visual metaphor in Contemporary Art. This episode we have a few discussion points about the recommendation blurbs on the back cover by three very important and creative scholars Dr Daniel F. Ammann, Dr James Elkins, and Dr Philip Ursprung. Link to page for the book on Bloomsbury Press: US: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/ Europe: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/2023-04-1713 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 74: I'm Back! Visual Metaphor The podcast is back after a break of about one year. I was extremely wrapping up my book titled A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art for Bloomsbury Press. This is the first of an arc of podcast episodes where I will be working my way somewhat improvisationally through the book. Not reading it out-loud, though. I will go through and find certain details, points, examples, artists and ideas that I want to expand on or use as springboards. Bloomsbury link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-of-visual-metaphor-in-contemporary-art-9781350073838/2023-03-1908 min
TextilWirtschaft PodcastWie schaffte The Wants den Sprung vom Schuhladen zum Social Media-Star, Mark Hegelau?
Schuhe, Social Media und Shopping-App: Mark Hegelau, Gründer und CEO des Schuhkonzepts "The Wants Shoes" aus Köln. Zusammen mit seiner Freundin Michi Brandl hat er "The Wants" 2015 ins Leben gerufen. Heute umfasst das Konzept mehr als den Schuhladen: Eine Social Media-Agentur, einen Online-Shop sowie eine Shopping-App. Im Gespräch mit TW-Redakteurin Simone Reiner verrät Mark Hegelau, welche Marken online und offline gerade richtig gut laufen. Was seine persönlichen Tipps zum Community Building sind. Wie man authentischen Social Media Content produziert und warum bei all den digitalen Aktivitäten der Store nach wie vor das Herzstück von...2022-01-2033 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!No Back to Normal in ArtCatastrophes, such as the Covid pandemic, don't cause problems and breakdowns in society as much as reveal and intensify the problems already present. The coronavirus crisis has accelerated already existing troubles in the artworld. Normal was not all that great anyway, and to revive it as a zombie would be even worse.2022-01-1808 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Design vs Fine ArtA new Dr Great Art Podcast Episode 72: Design vs Fine Art After a 7 month break, I'm back. My artecdote this time is concerns differentiating the ontological state of design versus that of fine art without denigrating either. They are different. It has to do with purposeful polysemy.2021-08-0412 min
Executive Office InsightsSummer greetings from Diana052: Hey there, it has been a while - I know. I was too busy preparing interesting interviews for you all that I almost forgot to record an episode myself. So, here I am. Super ready for my upcoming summer break. I will be gone three weeks. Still unreal to be honest but I so need this break. I have wonderful plans and will make memories. I hope you enjoy your summer as well, no matter if you are travelling or staying home enjoying a detoxing phase, some good books or anything else. I will for...2021-07-1411 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Santa's Look RepriseChristmas time! A Dr Great Art podcast about how Santa Claus LOOKS --- the history of his visual appearance. St. Nicholas, Thomas Nast, Fred Mizen, Coca-Cola, Luther, the Orthodox Santa, "Twas the Night Before Christmas," Puritans, Nazis and more including the Swiss Samichlaus and Schmutzli This is the 71st Dr Great Art podcast, a reprise from way back, podcast number 5. In this troublesome time of Covid, Lockdowns and the attempted fascist takeovers of the US and the UK still in progress, let us pray that times get better. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Yuletide, Happy Solstice, Happy...2020-12-1108 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 3 of 3.The New Dr Great Art Podcast, Episode 70. The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 3 of 3. The third of three parts of a breakdown of the fourth chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Conceptual Blending, Foundational Metaphors and Allusciviousness in visual metaphors. Sonya Clark, William Conger, and more.2020-12-0240 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 2 of 3.The New Dr Great Art Podcast, Episode 69. The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 2 of 3. The second of three parts of a breakdown of the fourth chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Trope: including metaphor, metonymy, simile, synecdoche, litotes, hyperbole, irony, analogy, allegory, symbol, metalepsis and so on. Visual metaphors are not linguistic, nor illustrations of them; they are more deeply embodied. Analytic philosophy and cognitive metaphor theory.2020-11-2122 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 1 of 3.The first of three parts of a breakdown of the fourth chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Is there a set of structural rules governing the creation of visual metaphors by artists that parallels the conventions of linguistic grammar? Analytic philosophy, Literary theory, cognitive metaphor theory, Anti-Positivism, Similarities and more interesting dissimilarities between linguistic and visual tropes, and the ludic!2020-11-0125 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Why Visual Metaphors Matter, Part 3 of 3The third of three parts of a breakdown of the third chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Philosophy affects our ways of living, and more important to this book, it affects or artistic production, even when we are not completely cognizant of this. Visual trope production is how contemporary artists achieve what they do.2020-10-1921 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Why Visual Metaphors Matter, Part 2 of 3The second of three parts of a breakdown of the third chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Philosophy affects our ways of living, and more important to this book, it affects or artistic production, even when we are not completely cognizant of this. Visual trope production is how contemporary artists achieve what they do.2020-10-1418 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Why Visual Metaphors Matter, Part 1 of 3The first of three parts of a breakdown of the third chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Philosophy affects our ways of living, and more important to this book, it affects or artistic production, even when we are not completely cognizant of this. Visual trope production is how contemporary artists achieve what they do.2020-10-0520 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Visual Metaphor Part 3 of 3The third of three parts of a breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, titled Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy. A discussion of what visual metaphor is. This is Part 3 of 3 episodes covering this chapter.2020-06-1416 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Visual Metaphor Part 2 of 3The second of three parts of a breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, titled Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy. A discussion of what visual metaphor is. This is Part 2 of 3 episodes covering this chapter.2020-05-1020 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Visual Metaphor, What is It? (Chp 2)A breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, titled Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy. A discussion of what visual metaphor is. This is Part 1 of 3 episodes covering this chapter.2020-04-1616 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Corona Pandemic Online DiscussionsSince we have to keep a certain social-distancing in real life, social contact online is important. I am inviting all to join me in online streaming "live" art history and art discussions. Skype (mark.staff.brandl), Facebook ("Mark Staff Brandl" or "Dr Great Art"), or Microsoft Teams. Contact me at Facebook Messenger or the Dr Great Art Email to set up a time.2020-03-1803 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Mini Episode PicassoA shorter episode, I call a "mini." This time with interesting little facts about Pablo Picasso. 2020-01-1104 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Metaphor, What is It? (Chp 1)A cursory breakdown of the first chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, tentatively titled Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy. A discussion of what metaphor is, in general, as a lead up to my philosophy of visual metaphor. 2019-11-2527 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!The Blues Got MeThe Blues ethos as a strategy of persistence against melancholy. The Life Blues got me. I had a few slaps upside the head and they affect my art inspiration and production.2019-10-2009 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!(Im)Maturity in ArtImmaturity, maturity, and the desire for the latter in art and the repression of that desire in culture at large.2019-09-2908 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Academicism in ArtAn 'academicist' in the arts is someone who over-idealizes the art academy; one who follows the precepts taught there and insists others do so as well. Here is a short history of academicism and thoughts about the problem now.2019-09-0112 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Epsitemology in ArtEpistemology: the philosophical analysis of the search for knowledge. Does it exist in art? How and what can we know? Will it replace the ubiquitous ontological expressions in Postmodernism?2019-08-1611 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Grief in ArtA short, yet gloomy, podcast for summer. My mother Ruth Staff Brandl passed away very recently at the age of 87. In this tough, sad time, my mind still approaches the world through art, yet I find it hard to find any comfort therein. In our artworld nowadays, it seems almost ridiculous. Grief, though, like most important and complex human emotions, has been the subject or inspiration for many great works of art Her obituary is at: http://brandl-art-articles.blogspot.com/2019/07/ruth-staff-brandl-obituary.html2019-07-2306 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Dictatorship of the ConsensoriatThe creation of a term for one of the problems in the artworld, one very obvious around June each year when we all go to the Basel Art Fair, often the Venice Biennale, documenta etc. A phrase for the convenient conformity of (small) minds to have identical tastes in order to achieve hegemony.2019-05-3106 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Julia Kristeva, Metaphor as ResistanceJulia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher, offers in her theorization hope for resistance against ruling ideologies within artworks themselves. Artists can produce "openings" by creating metaphors through serious play, turning rules upside down, displaying pleasure, laughter and poetry which include thoughtful critique --- delightful, anarchistic, alternative visions that are embodiments of and empower other forms of resistance.2019-05-1207 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Bluesman of ArtDr Cornel West has described himself as a "Bluesman in the life of the mind, and a Jazzman in the world of ideas." I feel similarly, I am a Bluesman of the mind, a Rock n Roller of painting and installations, a sequential-artist/comic-book penciler of art history.2019-04-2709 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Petr Brandl, Prague and MeFIFTY! Petr Brandl, the once very famous Baroque painter from Bohemia/Czech Republic and my distant ancestor. And a Festival Brandl with Geisslers Hofcomoedianten in Prague!2019-04-1413 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Performance-PaintingsPeaceable Kingdom, Georama, Kamishibai. Edward Hicks, John Banvard, Toba Sojo. Inspirations and antecedants for my Dr Great Art performance-lecture paintings.2019-03-0312 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Artists' Side JobsThis podcast episode concerns something important to many artists, yet seldom openly discussed. That is, what "side jobs" artists have to do to stay alive. Many do not want to admit to this AT ALL.2019-02-0120 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Braid Model of Art HistoryThe future art is not posthistorical, but rather polyhistorical, plurogenic (multistrand), not monogenic (single strand). There are various models and/or master narratives of art history, from the immensely limited discussion of the traditional narrow canon to timorous avoidance of any timeline due to postmodern guilt, treating artworks as mere stand-ins for particular ideologies. The late art critic John Perreault and I have created a new, more transparent model: the Braid, or Braided Rope. See additional content for an image of the Braid Model.2018-12-3014 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Color in ArtSome scattered reflections on the complex role of color in art including several things that bother me regularly in purportedly theoretical discussions of it. Color is wonderful, and necessary, but it is a happily difficult entity for theory.2018-11-2813 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!The Role of Hope in ArtIt’s difficult to look into the future with any hope. What IS the role of hope in art? To me, it is all important.2018-11-0410 minRise Up! The Baker Podcast with Mark DyckMark and Cindy's Ontario Roadtrip / Arlo Brandl, CBB from Tecumseh, MichiganMark and Cindy are back from a massive road trip through Ontario and into the Midwest USA, checking out the amazing trees and lakes and visiting as many bakeries as humanly possible. In this two-part episode, Mark shares his thoughts on the trip, with an emphasis on the wide variety of community bakeries they saw throughout Ontario. Then, Mark and Arlo Brandl from Tecumseh, Michigan have an in-person chat about Arlo's new bakery and his recent success in becoming the BBGA's seventh Certified Bread Baker. Some links: Tecumseh Bread and Pastry @t...2018-10-1040 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogic Form and MetaphorBakhtinian notions which could serve as great inspiration for visual art include his sense of the living fluidity of expression; his concepts of heteroglossia, polyphonic form, and dialogic form; his insight that these may engender the liberation of alternative voices; and his presentation of the carnival as a suggestive metaphor.2018-10-0610 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Neo-Conceptualism, the TermThis episode's artecdote clarifies the historical terminology for the dominant Postmodernist art movement since circa 1985: 'Neo-Conceptualism.' Neo-Conceptualists themselves generally try to refer to themselves with the earlier term as 'Conceptualists,' but this is a political ploy, an ahistorical part of a powerplay, pretending that they are a part of the movement form which they derive.2018-09-1607 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Defining Visual MetaphorThis episode, I give my definition of visual metaphor. This is a new area of scholarly interest, and there have been few attempts to clearly describe visual metaphor or trope. This is an important foundational action and idea for the book on visual metaphor and contemporary art I am in the process of writing.2018-08-2607 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 41: Lawrence Weiner, Conceptual Art, and MetaphorConceptual Artist Lawrence Weiner is quite fond of formulating statements in which he claims to have dismissed metaphor from his artwork. He is completely wrong. No matter what is claimed, Lawrence Weiner's art, and most Conceptual Art and Neo-Conceptual Art, whether good or bad, is deeply grounded in interlocking base metaphors; metaphors commonly ignored because they are so transparent.2018-08-1009 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Goya's Anti-Academicist SpeechGoya's amazing speech to the newly founded Spanish Art Academy School. He was invited to speak to them as he was well-respected and was interested in helping other artists learn. Yet he had a profound dislike and fear of Academicism. Not only one of the best artists of all history, but was an independent and socially critical thinker, although he was court painter. Academics are scholars, and he and I are not criticizing them or their practice, rather AcademICISM, which is the worship of the Academy, the belief in Rules for Art and Creativity. And that these can be...2018-07-0909 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Copying in ArtThe phenomenon of artists copying each other and themselves (not forgeries, copies). Something thoroughly disdained since Modernism, yet an activity that was important before that, for learning, out of admiration, for expanding an audience, for additional income. And some thoughts about the situation now.2018-06-1812 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!New Historicism in ArtNew Historicism or alternately Cultural Materialism, and how its ideas are auspicious for visual metaphor, art history and conceptions of context in visual art. Art History consists of multiple histories, discontinuous and contradictory ones. The heretical response to authoritarian demand is important. Works of art express the problems and alienation of our or any time and place, but also frequently offer expressions of fullness that attack that alienation and help shatter the incrustations of belief forced upon us. Art History should discuss both.2018-06-0410 minRise Up! The Baker Podcast with Mark DyckArlo Brandl of Tecumseh Bread and PastryAfter 18 months of working around the clock, Arlo Brandl decided to remake Tecumseh Bread and Pastry into a one man shop. Right in his back yard. And so far, it seems to be working. In this episode, Mark and Arlo talk about the decision to settle in the small town of Tecumseh, Michigan and the even bigger decision to close his retail bakery and get smaller. And how the changes are bringing Arlo even closer to his customers. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Some links: Tecumseh Bread and Pastry...2018-05-231h 14
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Originality in ArtDoes originality in art even exist? A Matt Ballou listener request. "Make it new!" has certainly become old. Yet, the Postmodernist demand that a lack of originality be heralded as something new is duplicitous. A discussion of originality in art.2018-05-2112 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Paintings and Novels are Quintessentially AntitheticalPaintings and novels, far from being hidebound, as is often squawked, are quintessentially antithetical: excellent disciplines for new metaphoric thought. They are ideally adversarial. They incorporate, use and criticize. They have achieved a condition of being perpetually "genres undermined." They have been in a permanent state of crisis for a minimum of several hundred years. What more could one ask for as a difficult, challenging and rewarding fray?2018-05-0511 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Lakoff, Art and Cognitive MetaphorMetaphor is the basis of thought, which importantly arises from bodily, cultural and environmental experience. It is embodied in the body, in the world and in the expressions of it, such as visual art. Metaphors we live and create by.2018-04-2110 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Artistic Agon, Eshu not OedipusArtists are directly responsible for fashioning their own tropes through the processes of extension, elaboration, composition and/or questioning. They must wrestle with their precursors, who inspired them to be creators in the first place, to do this. Such dialectical struggle, called an 'agon,' is more than simply oedipal. The African spirit Eshu, the trickster patron saint of crossroads, and Jacob, who struggled with God in the Bible, make better metaphoric models than Oedipus.2018-04-0711 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Michelangelo's ForgeryThere is a somewhat frequently-heard accusation that Michelangelo forged ancient Roman sculpture at the start of his career. Here is the truth.2018-03-2106 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Telltales ShowHow is history constructed? Who makes history? And what will remain in the future from us and our culture? What is the truth? What is fabrication? Isn’t a well-told tale more exciting than simple data and facts? Facts are extremely important. Not everything goes --- yet all facts and sources of facts must be closely examined and often criticized. (Art) HistorIES.2018-03-0409 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Three Useful Feminist Ideas for ArtA short podcast presenting three ideas from Feminist philosophy useful for art and metaphor: pragmatic action over absolutism, the located self, and finding loopholes in hegemonies to allow creative resistance.2018-02-1305 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Trope and MetaphorA podcast in preparation for discussions of visual metaphor: one aspect of terminology, trope and metaphor.2018-01-2708 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Seven Fun Facts in Art HistoryA lighter episode relating seven stimulating facts about Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Georgia O'Keeffe.2018-01-0707 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Sophistry in Art: Love of Art Over CareerismThis episode concerns a troublesome yet seldom acknowledged tendency in the artworld: Sophistry. Why are you in this struggle? Are you an artist or critic or curator simply for careerist "success"? Weren't you actually CALLED to art?2017-12-2606 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Models are Not Master NarrativesThis episode's Artecdote is an explanation of my assertion that art history models are not necessarily master narratives. Art History is often told in versions of one linear story, thus a master narrative. This often delimits thought, sustains oppressive systems and purports to be the truth, allowing no exceptions. On the other hand, the stringent fear of modeling has sometimes lead the less inventive to fall into the simple nihilism of "I give up." In fact, models are important dialogical tools of and for thought.2017-12-0609 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Artists Create New Metaphors to Live ByMy Artecdote this episode is the an explanation of my assertion that "Artists Create New Metaphors to Live By." Under the inspiration of Lakoff, Johnson and Turner's Cognitive Metaphor Theory, I describe my assertion that artists create for themselves new metaphors to live by, by creating new metaphors to create with, which viewers can then also use to think with and live by. This I refer to as artists’ metaphor(m)s or central tropes.2017-11-1911 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Exhibition Comics and Iconosequentiality in ArtA new artistic development: Exhibition Comics and a new compositional form: Iconosequentiality.2017-11-0310 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!MIA Marietta TintorettaAn artist who greatly needs to be rediscovered. Not only her name, but her works! Marietta Tintoretta. The daughter of Jacopo Rubusti, aka Tintoretto. Renowned as a great artist in her time, the Late Renaissance, now disappeared.2017-10-1608 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Genius in ArtThe concept of "genius" in art has rightly been criticized for its sexism, exaggeration and more. However, it is possible to retain its useful aspects by redefining it as the level of achieved pervasiveness of an artist's metaphor(m).2017-09-2513 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Representationalism in ArtWhat constitutes representation in a work of art? The representational nature of visual art is one of its most important, fruitful, and intriguing elements --- yet for very particular reasons.2017-09-1710 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Giotto and Halley's CometGiotto, the painter who made the crucial change from the Medieval style thus beginning the Renaissance in art, painted a picture of the Star of Bethlehem which is an image of Halley's comet!2017-09-0305 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Mongrel and Democratic ArtMongrel Art! Democratic Art! This Dr great Art Artecdote is a description of and plaidoyer for a (Post-Postmodernist) art that is anti-purist, syncretistic, and creolized, unifying a variety of artforms, disciplines, tendencies and philosophies. Artworks involving popular or democratic and street artforms outside the "standard" fine art ones, yet also not eschewing either so-called time-honored, nor technologically "new" disciplines, as it seeks to revitalize and transform them all, while opening the art system and deliberately involving people outside the field of art in artistic processes.2017-08-2712 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!"(No) Rules in Art"This Dr Great Art Artecdote concerns supposed rules in art, especially painting. It describes how there are really no rules in art, and it decries the obsequiousness of those who believe there are rules and who seek to follow them.2017-08-1809 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 18: Meaning is in Artworks ThemselvesThe meaning of every artwork lies in the object itself, not in any commentary concerning it.2017-07-3107 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 17: Provinciality in ArtTimes have changed drastically. Now, what provinciality is has been turned completely around. It is a state of mind, not geography.2017-07-1710 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 16: Postmodernism ExistsThis Dr Great Art artecdote concerns the beginning of the period, or transitional subperiod, of art in which we now exist: Postmodernism. It cannot be talked away or ignored, nor should it be worshipped. But we are in it since 1979.2017-07-0314 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 15: Paradigms and Fuzzy CategoriesThis Dr Great Art artecdote is about a form of definitional conceptualization, paradigms and fuzzy categories, and how that is important to understanding art.2017-06-1710 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 14: Th. Emil HomerinAn artecdote about a person: Dr Professor Th. Emil Homerin, an important, inspiring scholar of religion, especially mysticism, especially the Sufis, with significant thoughts concerning art.2017-05-2410 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 13: Nine Arts and Nine MusesThere are traditionally Nine Muses and Nine Arts, frequently linked to one another. This is my attempt to concoct a fresh, contemporary version of this system for no darn reason other than pure, cultural fun.2017-05-1511 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 12: Why 'Dr Great Art' ?A very short 4 minute episode concerning how this podcast, the accompanying performance-lectures in painting-installations, and indeed the art historian and artist Mark Staff Brandl himself came to be called 'Dr Great Art.'2017-05-0104 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 11: Syncretism, Easter, Mongrel ArtSyncretism is the blending, layering and uniting of different beliefs of various schools of thought. Easter is the holiday most evidencing syncretistic thought. Mongrel Art is a syncretistic form or art. Democratic Art syncretistically involves people outside the field of art in artistic processes.2017-04-2011 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 10: Why Art History?The lessons of art history are that they are lessons. That is a tautology, but an illuminating one worth elaborating upon. It is necessary to know history as personal empowerment for artists: to test the present with the often surprising facts of the past, to note how and why "official" history has often changed; second, to discover one's own personal, vital ancestry; and finally, in order to criticize and change art history.2017-03-2710 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 9: Mannerism is Now!A short Artecdote about how our time, Postmodernism, resembles and indeed IS a form of Mannerism.2017-03-0810 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 8: African Art History, the SurveyA short Artecdote concerning the difficulty in teaching an overview, or intro survey to Sub-Saharan African art, plus a free art image bank to download. Image bank link: http://brandl-art-articles.blogspot.ch/2016/10/african-art-course.html2017-02-1908 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 7: Art Beyond ComplaintA short artecdote discussing how criticism and complaint about the moribund artworld is important, but what positive things we can do to improve the situation.2017-01-2805 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 6: Genius in Small Things: ChiaroscuroA short Artecdote illustrating how important innovation often arises in apparently unpretentious discoveries. This is exemplified by chiaroscuro, the technique in paintings of using radical light-and-dark.2017-01-0308 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 5: Santa Claus's Look!Christmas time! A podcast about how Santa Claus LOOKS --- the history of his visual appearance. St. Nicholas, Thomas Nast, Fred Mizen, myths like Coca-Cola, Luther, the Orthodox Santa, "Twas the night before Christmas," and more including the Swiss Samichlaus and Schmutzli!2016-12-1207 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 4: The 'Problem' with Performance and Video ArtThe question: What is the problem with Performance Art and Video Art? Are they really, as can seem, so often so bad?2016-12-0405 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 3: Pluralism, PluralismS, SchmuralismRe-historicizing Pluralism in art. It is claimed to be a unique change and to reign right now, yet it is not so new and has a past. Pluralisms have occurred at least 7 times before.2016-11-1510 min
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 2: Art Mottos, Modernism and PoMoThe slogan of Modernism was Ezra Pound's "Make it new. " Postmodernism (supposedly) rejects this. What is its motto and what could come after that?2016-10-3006 minDr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!Episode 1: Illegal to Teach Women ArtThere were of course female artists at all times. Most simply have been ignored, or even later removed from mainstream art history. Worst of all, for most of history in the West and the East, it was illegal to instruct or train women to become professional artists at all!2016-10-1905 min
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 552: MSB vs. Chris DennisThis week sees the return of the once thought lost Mark Staff Brandl! Chris Dennis! From his site: Chris Dennis grew up in, England. He studied natural history illustration at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and this classical training is evident in his current therianthropic work. After completing his BA (Hons) at the University of Wolverhampton he relocated to the United States, and in 2000 earned his MFA from the University of Art in San Francisco. In 2010 after a period in Berlin, Chris made Auckland his home. He has e...2016-06-231h 14
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Er war Number One. Der beste Agent der Group 15, einer Untergrundeinheit des britischen Geheimdienstes. Doch nach zehn Jahren des Tötens hat John Milton genug - er will raus. Jetzt ist er der meistgesuchte Mann der britischen Regierung, denn niemand steigt ungestraft aus. Der russische Geheimdienst macht sich die Situati...2016-03-017h 28How to Stream Audiobook in Mysteries & Thrillers, HistoricalOne: Sie finden dich (John Milton 1) von Mark Dawson | Kostenloses HörbuchHören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitel: One: Sie finden dich (John Milton 1)
Autor: Mark Dawson
Erzähler: Jürgen Holdorf
Format: Unabridged
Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 28 mins
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-01-16
Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH
Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage
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Er war Number One. Der beste Agent der Group 15, einer Untergrundeinheit des britischen Geheimdienstes. Doch nach zehn Jahren des Tötens hat John Milton genug - er will raus. Jetzt ist er der meistgesuchte Mann der britischen Regierung, denn niemand steigt ungestraft aus. Der russische Geheimdienst macht sich die Situation zunutze...2016-03-017h 28
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 331: Venice 2011This week: Happy 2012! We kick off the new year with Mark Staff Brandl reporting from Venice 2011!
A Venice Biennale 2011 extravaganza. Mark Staff Brandl is in the City of St. Mark. Brandl, the Central European Bureau and VaporettoShark, traverses and discusses his way through this huge international festival with sporadic assistance from Peter Stobbe, Claudia Tolusso, Manuela Gritsch, Elisabeth Payer, Tamara Remus, Lucas Malsch, Adam Vogt, Sarah Rohner, Johanna Gschwend, Marc Bless, Manuel Ackermann, Chandra Marquart and others from the Art Academy of Liechtenstein. He covers many of the national pavilions at the Giardini park, discusses...2012-01-022h 02
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 292: Ieva MauriteThis week: Mark Staff Brandl talks to Ieva Maurite. Ieva Maurite is a young Latvian artist living in Riga. For the show this week, Mark Staff Brandl, (the Bad at Sports Continental European Office and EuroShark) interviewed her during her visiting artist gig in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Maurite is a painter, book artist and art academy instructor who has also had residencies in Paris, Iceland and many other parts of Europe. Maurite and Brandl discuss the itinerant European artist life, art study and the artworld in Latvia, Maurite's difficult-to-photograph linear imagistic paintings and generally have fun meandering around...2011-04-041h 06
Bad at SportsBad at Sports episode 279: Alexander Johannes KrautThis week: This is the second of two interviews with German artists conducted by Mark Staff Brandl on the island of Elba, Italy. Alexander Johannes Kraut is an artist who concentrates on drawing and printmaking, sometimes reaching installative proportions. He has also created an amazing thirteen chapter wordless graphic novel. Kraut comes from a farming village in the Allgäu, and is now based in Kreuzberg in Berlin. He has lived in many places and exhibited widely in important museums and other venues including in Mexico City, Paris and New York as well as several places in Germany. The ar...2011-01-031h 05