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Zur Darstellung der Depression und Melancholie im Werk William Hogarths. One reason why Hogarth’s painted and engraved work has proven so fascinating for scholars from a variety of disciplines (history, literature, medicine, to name just the most important apart from art history and media studies) is the fact that it can be studied as a meeting ground or palimpsest where established popular and polite forms of discourse mingle to produce ambiguous, satirical meaning. This includes the subjec...Zur Darstellung der Depression und Melancholie im Werk William Hogarths. One reason why Hogarth’s painted and engraved work has proven so fascinating for scholars from a variety of disciplines (history, literature, medicine, to name just the most important apart from art history and media studies) is the fact that it can be studied as a meeting ground or palimpsest where established popular and polite forms of discourse mingle to produce ambiguous, satirical meaning. This includes the subject of depression and what was known about it in the eighteenth century. In what follows, I want to discuss some of Hogarth’s prints in detail, with a few occasional glances at paintings, while trying to unearth the discourses behind his representations. Hogarth drew both on the medical and paramedical knowledge of his day and on traditional forms of verbal and visual representations, but also on sign language and theatrical gestures. On the one hand, then, I will “read” some Hogarthian images in view of their integration of depression, and on the other hand I will also try to show that Hogarth’s graphic art is not a realistic comment on the subject but rather a re-presentation of many “déjà lus/vus” in word and image, a re-presentation that was adapted to the new Augustan middle-class mentality, which he helped shape.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Kunst-, Musik-, Theater- und Medienwissenschaften

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Malerei