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Dr Great Art! Short, Fun Art History Artecdotes!

Mark Staff Brandl

Dr Great Art! (Sometimes even with a "?"), Short, Fun, Art History Artecdotes. Through his podcasts and performance-lecture installations, artist and art historian Dr Mark Staff Brandl takes...

Episodes

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Episode 86: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 7, My Politics

This is the seventh of a series of auto-bio vignette webcomics, a form of flash-lit, as sequential art, podcasts and videos. You can see the...

05:27Aug 22, 2026

Episode 85: Flash Memoir Vignette Nr 6, Hinterm Horizont

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 ori...

05:27Mar 26, 2026

Episode 84: Podcastthon, Catandog Rescuing Animals Ukraine

In March, a huge group of podcasters are posting episodes supporting charities of their choice. The action is called PODCASTHON, from 14 Mar...

18:59Mar 14, 2026

Episode 83: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 4, Meeting Daniel Ammann

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...

07:46Nov 26, 2025

Episode 82: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 3, Old-Age Diabetes

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 ori...

06:00Nov 5, 2025

Episode 81: Flash-Memoir Vignette Nr 2, Artistic Inspiration

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, seque...

05:10Oct 23, 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-tex...

04:14Sep 9, 2025

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 Nicol...

56:27May 11, 2025

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 dis...

05:44Mar 28, 2025

Episode 77: Visual Metaphor, William Conger

My recently released philosophy book, A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art , from Bloomsbury Press, features short descriptio...

04:44Jun 16, 2024

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 P...

33:06Jul 4, 2023

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 Conte...

13:56Apr 17, 2023

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 Contempor...

08:07Mar 19, 2023

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 alread...

08:05Jan 18, 2022

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 differentiatin...

12:20Aug 4, 2021

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...

08:30Dec 11, 2020

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...

40:00Dec 2, 2020

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 fourt...

22:42Nov 21, 2020

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 Metap...

25:01Nov 1, 2020

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 'V...

21:35Oct 19, 2020