October 2010

Brandl Dissertation On-Line


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The final central chapters to my PhD dissertation, Metaphor(m): Engaging a Theory of Central Trope in Art, in almost finished form, are now up on my website. That is, Chapters Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. Please check them out including the accompanying Covers paintings at the beginning and sequential comic art sequences at the end of each. They are titled:
CHAPTER FOUR: Conceiving Metaphor(m)s
CHAPTER FIVE: My Metaphor(m)
CHAPTER SIX: Central Trope in Two Contemporary Painters' Works
CHAPTER SEVEN: Artistic Ground: Cultural Inheritance, Struggle, Respect,
Material and Identity
CHAPTER EIGHT: Metaphor(m) and the Expanded Text Concept
CHAPTER NINE: Timelines, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History

Link to the dissertation on-line here.

Please comment on them either here or on my Facebook page, if you desire.



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Aaron Belz is the author of The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Lovely, Raspberry (Persea, 2010). He is an English professor at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California.

TO DREAM ONLY OF BUNNIES

To dream only of bunnies
is a kind of poverty.
To dream of red flashing lights,
and that only, is also sad.

To dream of flashing red
bunnies, however; to sleep,
and by a sleep to say
we dream of red and green




Weird Al and me

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Simone Muench micro-interviewed by Daniel Handler

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