Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
Dr Great Art! (Sometimes even with a "?"), Art History, Visual Metaphor, and a dash of politics. Through his podcasts and performance-lecture installations, artist and art historian Dr Mark Staff Brandl takes viewers inside visual art, art history, and visual metaphor theory. Entertainingly, yet educationally and aesthetically he presents and discusses stimulating tidbits of knowledge. Brandl stands for an understanding of art in which art historical knowledge and aesthetic pleasure merge into a new artistic experience.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Episode 80: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 1, Summer Evening
I am starting to do something I have long planned, a series of auto-bio vignette comics, something along the lines of the new-form Flash-text pieces, as sequential art. I am alsomaking audio version…
Episode 79: Dorf Sex Podcast Crossover in German
Me in German. Dr Great Art auf Deutsch. Es war spannend und ich habe Spass gehabt. In the Podcast "Dorf_Sex" by Dr Stephanie Meyer and Nicole Blattmann. Ich als Gast. "Zwischen Lust und Leinwand – Ei…
Episode 78: Art, Metaphor, and Politics
My podcast makes a come-back with some slight changes. I will still be talking mostly about art and art history, but will also expand my discussions regularly into visual metaphor, as I did in severa…
Episode 77: Visual Metaphor, William Conger
My recently released philosophy book, A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art, from Bloomsbury Press, features short descriptions of artists and their works which I find important to visu…
Episode 76: Brandl Interviewed by Dan Hill
This is a crossover episode, it is a short interview Dan Hill made on his EQ Spotlight podcast with me, Mark Staff Brandl, about my book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art. Dan Hill’…
Episode 75: Visual Metaphor the Back Cover
Last episode, I discussed the ins-and-outs of the front cover of my new book from Bloomsbury Press, A Philosophy of Visual metaphor in Contemporary Art. This episode we have a few discussion points …
Episode 74: I'm Back! Visual Metaphor
The podcast is back after a break of about one year. I was extremely wrapping up my book titled A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art for Bloomsbury Press. This is the first of an arc …
Episode 73: No Back to Normal in Art
Catastrophes, such as the Covid pandemic, don't cause problems and breakdowns in society as much as reveal and intensify the problems already present. The coronavirus crisis has accelerated already e…
Episode 72: Design vs Fine Art
A new Dr Great Art Podcast Episode 72: Design vs Fine Art After a 7 month break, I'm back. My artecdote this time is concerns differentiating the ontological state of design versus that of fine art w…
Episode 71: Santa's Look Reprise
Christmas time! A Dr Great Art podcast about how Santa Claus LOOKS --- the history of his visual appearance. St. Nicholas, Thomas Nast, Fred Mizen, Coca-Cola, Luther, the Orthodox Santa, "Twas the Ni…
Episode 70: The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 3 of 3.
The New Dr Great Art Podcast, Episode 70. The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 3 of 3. The third of three parts of a breakdown of the fourth chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbur…
Episode 69: The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 2 of 3.
The New Dr Great Art Podcast, Episode 69. The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 2 of 3. The second of three parts of a breakdown of the fourth chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbu…
Episode 68: The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 1 of 3.
The first of three parts of a breakdown of the fourth chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.' Is there …
Episode 67: Why Visual Metaphors Matter, Part 3 of 3
The third of three parts of a breakdown of the third chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.…
Episode 66: Why Visual Metaphors Matter, Part 2 of 3
The second of three parts of a breakdown of the third chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy…
Episode 65: Why Visual Metaphors Matter, Part 1 of 3
The first of three parts of a breakdown of the third chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled 'Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic Philosophy.…
Episode 64: Visual Metaphor, Part 3 (Chp 2)
The third of three parts of a breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, titled Visual Metaphor in Con…
Episode 63: Visual Metaphor, Part 2 (Chp 2)
The second of three parts of a breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, titled Visual Metaphor in Co…
Episode 62: Visual Metaphor, What is It? (Chp 2)
A breakdown of the second chapter from my in-the-works philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series, titled Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and Analytic P…
Episode 61: Corona Pandemic Online Discussions
Since we have to keep a certain social-distancing in real life, social contact online is important. I am inviting all to join me in online streaming "live" art history and art discussions. Skype (mar…