Monat: Mai 2018

The new Dr Great Art podcast. Episode 37: Originality in Art, Tradition vs. Innovation

Does originality in art even exist? A Matt Ballou listener request. „Make it new!“ has certainly become old. Yet, the Postmodernist demand that a lack of originality be heralded as something new is duplicitous. A discussion of originality in art.

http://drgreatart.libsyn.com/episode-37-originality-in-art
#arthistory #originality #drgreatart #markstaffbrandl #metaphor

The newest Dr Great Art Podcast. Episode 36: Paintings and Novels are Quintessentially Antithetical.

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?
http://drgreatart.libsyn.com/episode-36-paintings-and-novels-are-quintessentially-antithetical
#arthistory #painting #novel