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Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!


Short podcasts on art, art history, visual metaphor, politics of art

May 5, 2018

Paintings 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?