Episode 62: 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 Ph...
16 Apr 202016min
Episode 61: Corona Pandemic Online Discussions
Since 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...
18 Mars 20203min
Episode 60: Mini Episode Picasso
A shorter episode, I call a "mini." This time with interesting little facts about Pablo Picasso.
11 Jan 20204min
Episode 59: 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 ...
25 Nov 201927min
Episode 58: The Blues Got Me
The 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.
20 Okt 20199min
Episode 57: (Im)Maturity in Art
Immaturity, maturity, and the desire for the latter in art and the repression of that desire in culture at large.
29 Sep 20198min
Episode 56: Academicism in Art
An '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 thoug...
1 Sep 201912min
Episode 55: Epistemology in Art
Epistemology: 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?
16 Aug 201911min
