Episode 36: Paintings and Novels are Quintessentially Antithetical
Dr Great Art! Short, Fun Art History Artecdotes!
English - May 05, 2018 16:31 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsVisual Arts Arts History arthistoryartshort Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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?