Episode 41: Lawrence Weiner, Conceptual Art, and Metaphor
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English - August 10, 2018 18:52 - 9 minutes - 8.83 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsVisual Arts Arts History arthistoryartshort Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Conceptual Artist Lawrence Weiner is quite fond of formulating statements in which he claims to have dismissed metaphor from his artwork. He is completely wrong. No matter what is claimed, Lawrence Weiner's art, and most Conceptual Art and Neo-Conceptual Art, whether good or bad, is deeply grounded in interlocking base metaphors; metaphors commonly ignored because they are so transparent.