Episode 46: Color in Art
Some 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...
28 Nov 201813min
Episode 45: The Role of Hope in Art
It's difficult to look into the future with any hope. What IS the role of hope in art? To me, it is all important.
4 Nov 201810min
Episode 44: Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogic Form and Metaphor
Bakhtinian 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 ...
6 Okt 201810min
Episode 43: Neo-Conceptualism, the Term
This 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...
16 Sep 20187min
Episode 42: Defining Visual Metaphor
This 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 fou...
26 Aug 20187min
Episode 41: Lawrence Weiner, Conceptual Art, and Metaphor
Conceptual 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 We...
10 Aug 20189min
Episode 40: Goya's Anti-Academicist Speech
Goya'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...
9 Juli 20189min
Episode 39: Copying in Art
The 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 o...
18 Juni 201812min
