TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caroline Patey
AU  - Cynthia E. Roman
AU  - Georges Letissier
PY  - 2022
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781800791565
TI  - Enduring Presence
T2  - William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives
DO  - 10.3726/b17869
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1299854
N2  - To order print copies of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £60.00, $90.95). Long after his death in 1764, William Hogarth is still our contemporary. Far from leading a secluded existence in museums and academies, his legacy of vibrant images and provocative ideas remains a powerful source of inventiveness and inspiration for the artists of today, as once for those of yesterday, be it on page, stage, canvas or digital formats. After approaching the artist by way of his challenging aesthetic philosophy and his resistance to normative categories, this two-book set considers Hogarth’s pioneering sense of performativity, which has long made him the treasured interlocutor of actors and playwrights, from David Garrick to Bertolt Brecht or Nick Dear. His work has permeated film, television, the graphic novel, art and narrative, which all bear witness to his versatile and powerful use of images and its resonance in the modern and contemporary age. Brimming as it is with energy, plenty, affliction, entropy and empathy, Hogarth’s contradictory universe of chaos and beauty is in tune with ours and resonates vividly with contemporary passions and struggles. The twenty-eight essays in this collection chart the teeming legacies of William Hogarth and explore the ways in which his works and ideas were and are revisited and appropriated in the UK and across Europe. For the eighteenth-century artist lives on as an unforgotten presence, whose invigorating and challenging memory energizes multiple expressive forms, including drama, visual arts, literature, film, graphic novels and TV serials.
KW  - William Hogarth, aesthetic and cultural legacy in modern and contemporary UK and Europe, cross-genre and cross-cultural appropriations, metamorphosis, intermediality, iconotextuality, the politics of art, art as politics, Enduring Presence, Caroline Patey, Cynthia Roman, Georges Letissier
LA  - English
ER  -