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


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

Aug 10, 2018

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 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.