Hogarth’s Visual Mnemotechnics: Notes on Abstraction as an aide-mémoire for Figurative Painters

摘要: William Hogarth’s insular pride is very well known, as known his painstaking effort to give British art-namely painting and engraving-a solid economic, social theoretical standing match Britain’s achievements in every major cultural political field. An insistent feature of this project the grounding on thoroughly criteria, exclusion any taint continental influence.1 The Analysis Beauty, first published 1753 immediately translated into German Italian, was be literary expression main ideas, allegedly original conception art.2 In fact, originality art theory more do with their clever presentation innovative arguments than much actual subject-matter topics, although it not always clear how far similarities earlier contemporary literature are deliberate or simply a matter coincidence.