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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2019

« William Hogarth: the narrative urge »

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William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains one of Britain’s best loved painters. His most renowned works, the series relating to moral subjects, are rarely displayed together, and will be united at the Soane Museum for the first time in its history. Hogarth’s concept of ‘progress’ was influenced by John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, where the word described a journey towards moral and spiritual redemption. Hogarth: Place and Progress will explore how Hogarth’s series explore as well a darker meaning of progress, with narratives that lead through moral abandon and social ostracism, to poverty, madness and death. Hogarth’s series present narratives with fully detailed characters, plots and changes of scene. Precise locations in London play a key role in a moral reading of Hogarth’s paintings. In A Rake’s Progress, the Rake moves from the City of London to an extravagant property in the west end, then a brothel in Covent Garden, and ultimately moves outside London, ending up in Bedlam, where his dissolute life has led him to insanity and death.
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halshs-04009742 , version 1 (01-03-2023)

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Frédéric Ogée. « William Hogarth: the narrative urge ». Hogarth: Place and Progress, Sir John Soane’s Museum & Paul Mellon Centre, Nov 2019, London, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-04009742⟩
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