Dr Great Art! Short, Fun Art History Artecdotes!

A shorter episode, I call a "mini." This time with interesting little facts about Pablo Picasso.

Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher, offers in her theorization hope for resistance against ruling ideologi... Read more

A short Artecdote illustrating how important innovation often arises in apparently unpretentious discoveries. This is ex... Read more

A breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Cont... Read more

Bakhtinian notions which could serve as great inspiration for visual art include his sense of the living fluidity of exp... Read more

This Dr Great Art artecdote concerns the beginning of the period, or transitional subperiod, of art in which we now exis... Read more

Re-historicizing Pluralism in art. It is claimed to be a unique change and to reign right now, yet it is not so new and ... Read more

The second of three parts of a breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press... Read more

The lessons of art history are that they are lessons. That is a tautology, but an illuminating one worth elaborating upo... Read more

The question: What is the problem with Performance Art and Video Art? Are they really, as can seem, so often so bad?

This Dr Great Art artecdote is about a form of definitional conceptualization, paradigms and fuzzy categories, and how t... Read more

Some scattered reflections on the complex role of color in art including several things that bother me regularly in purp... Read more

A short Artecdote about how our time, Postmodernism, resembles and indeed IS a form of Mannerism.

This podcast episode concerns something important to many artists, yet seldom openly discussed. That is, what "side jobs... Read more

Christmas time! A podcast about how Santa Claus LOOKS --- the history of his visual appearance. St. Nicholas, Thomas Nas... Read more

Immaturity, maturity, and the desire for the latter in art and the repression of that desire in culture at large.

Epistemology: the philosophical analysis of the search for knowledge. Does it exist in art? How and what can we know? Wi... Read more

This episode's artecdote clarifies the historical terminology for the dominant Postmodernist art movement since circa 19... Read more

Conceptual Artist Lawrence Weiner is quite fond of formulating statements in which he claims to have dismissed metaphor ... Read more

This episode, I give my definition of visual metaphor. This is a new area of scholarly interest, and there have been few... Read more