Episode 68: The Grammar of Visual Metaphors Part 1 of 3.
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
Release Date: 11/01/2020
Episode 85: Flash Memoir Vignette Nr 6, Hinterm Horizont
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
This is the sixth of a series of auto-bio vignette webcomics, a form of Flash-lit, as sequential art, podcast and video. You can see the original comic on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Spoutible or at the new blog site I made for them: youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/user/markstbr Hinterm Horizont geht’s weiter, Beyond the Horizon, Things Go On. For a show in the Art Museum of Olten, also with an artist residency proposal.
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Episode 84: Podcastthon, Catandog Rescuing Animals Ukraine
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
In March, a huge group of podcasters are posting episodes supporting charities of their choice. The action is called PODCASTHON, from 14 March to 20 March 2026. My episode concerns a wonderful project by an excellent former student of mine, Maria Zemchugova Bovkoun and her husband. They rescue dogs and cats in Ukraine, most of whom have been abandoned due to the terrible Putin War. The charity is titled “Catandog.”
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Episode 83: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 4, Meeting Daniel Ammann
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This is the fourth of a series of auto-bio vignette webcomics, a form of flash-lit, as sequential art, podcasts and videos. You can see the original comic on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Spoutible or at the new blog site I made for them . This one is about meeting my best friend in Switzerland, and inspiring discussion partner and collaborator, author, theorist, translator and more. Link to Youtube Video:
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Episode 82: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 3, Old-Age Diabetes
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
This is the third of a series of auto-bio vignette webcomics, a form of Flash-lit, as sequential art, podcast and video. You can see the original comic on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Spoutible or at the new blog site I made for them: youtube video: https://youtu.be/pUsCnKD2_Kw
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Episode 81: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 2, Artistic Inspiration
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
This is the second of a series of auto-bio vignette webcomics, something along the lines of the new-form Flash-text pieces, as emails, sequential art, podcasts and videos. You can see the original comic on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Spoutible or at the new blog site I made for them: Original comic: youtube video:
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Episode 80: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 1, Summer Evening
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
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 versions of them for my podcast. This is the first one "Flash-Memoir Vignette 1, Summer Evening." Link to drawn comic version: https://brandlflashmemoirvignettes.blogspot.com/2025/08/mark-staff-brandl-dr-great-arts-graphic.html
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Episode 79: Dorf Sex Podcast Crossover in German
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
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 – Ein Ausflug in Kunstgeschichte und Erotik In der ersten Folge unserer speziellen Kunst-, Schauspiel- und Fotografie-Reihe haben wir einen ganz besonderen Gast: Mark Staff Brandl, aka Dr Great Art, Kunsthistoriker und Experte! Gemeinsam tauchen wir ein in die Welt der Kunst und Erotik, diskutieren spannende Themen, von politisch bis feministisch – und bringen ordentlich Power ins Gespräch. Seid...
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Episode 78: Art, Metaphor, and Politics
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, 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 several recent podcast episodes, based on my recently released philosophy book, A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art, from Bloomsbury Press London. I will also be adding a short "pamphlet" section at the end of each with thoughts about recent politics, as they are so prevalent and dangerous now, and especially when they affect art and the artworld.
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Episode 77: Visual Metaphor, William Conger
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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 visual metaphor. Here is one, one of several times I discuss the great William Conger. Get the book and read it! But here is an excerpt. Link to page for my book on Bloomsbury Press: US: Europe:
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Episode 76: Brandl Interviewed by Dan Hill
Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!
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’s EQ Spotlight podcast link: Link to page for my book on Bloomsbury Press: US: Europe:
info_outlineThe 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 a set of structural rules governing the creation of visual metaphors by artists that parallels the conventions of linguistic grammar? Analytic philosophy, Literary theory, cognitive metaphor theory, Anti-Positivism, Similarities and more interesting dissimilarities between linguistic and visual tropes, and the ludic!