TY - JOUR

T1 - William Hogarth, Frederick Antal and Deconstruction

AU - Rykov, Anatolii Vladimirovich

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Saint Petersburg State University. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The article assesses the potential of Post-Structuralism for the decoding of William Hogarth’s artistic strategies. Frederick Antal, the author of the fundamental monograph on Hogarth, investigated some problems of interpretation of artist’s oeuvre in terms of deconstruction mechanisms (parody, expression, caricature, critique of “grand styles”). His conception of Mannerist, a multi-level art-object, which was not elaborated in his theoretical writings, can be explicated from his art historical studies. In the present article, intuitions of F. Antal, Arnold Hauser, and other theorists are explored in relation to the contemporary Post-Structuralism. The author focuses on Hogarth’s works “Royalty, Episcopacy and Law” (1724) and “Enthusiasm Delineated” (1762). Special attention has been paid to Hogarth’s oil-on-canvas painting “The Bench” (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and his engraving of the same title, examining them in the context of Modernist (Odilon Redon, Picasso) and classical (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Magnasco) art. “Deconstruction” in Hogarth’s art is interpreted in relation to approaches characteristic of the eighteenth-century culture (John Locke, Henry Fielding, David Hume, John Gay). The article is a part of the author’s project concerning the investigation of the origins of the avant-garde.

AB - The article assesses the potential of Post-Structuralism for the decoding of William Hogarth’s artistic strategies. Frederick Antal, the author of the fundamental monograph on Hogarth, investigated some problems of interpretation of artist’s oeuvre in terms of deconstruction mechanisms (parody, expression, caricature, critique of “grand styles”). His conception of Mannerist, a multi-level art-object, which was not elaborated in his theoretical writings, can be explicated from his art historical studies. In the present article, intuitions of F. Antal, Arnold Hauser, and other theorists are explored in relation to the contemporary Post-Structuralism. The author focuses on Hogarth’s works “Royalty, Episcopacy and Law” (1724) and “Enthusiasm Delineated” (1762). Special attention has been paid to Hogarth’s oil-on-canvas painting “The Bench” (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and his engraving of the same title, examining them in the context of Modernist (Odilon Redon, Picasso) and classical (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Magnasco) art. “Deconstruction” in Hogarth’s art is interpreted in relation to approaches characteristic of the eighteenth-century culture (John Locke, Henry Fielding, David Hume, John Gay). The article is a part of the author’s project concerning the investigation of the origins of the avant-garde.

KW - Avant-garde

KW - Deconstruction

KW - Enthusiasm

KW - Frederick Antal

KW - Henry Fielding

KW - Parody

KW - Post-Structuralism

KW - Realism

KW - William Hogarth

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U2 - 10.18688/aa200-4-53

DO - 10.18688/aa200-4-53

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85097952683

VL - 10

SP - 595

EP - 601

JO - Актуальные проблемы теории и истории искусства

JF - Актуальные проблемы теории и истории искусства

SN - 2312-2129

ER -