Cut Aesthetics: William H. Johnson’s Scrapbook History Paintings

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27
Author(s):  
Makeda Best
Keyword(s):  
History Paintings

Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth’s bodies

2018 ◽  
pp. 252-270
Author(s):  
Frédéric Ogée
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Painting Technique ◽  
True Representation ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
History Paintings

In his choice of subjects as in his painting technique, William Hogarth’s rendering of ‘life’ is remarkable for its tangible physicality. Be it for the materiality of its settings or for the variety of human characters, his pictures try to offer some kind of total ‘show’, with a view to representing Nature ‘as it is’ and in action, in opposition to the rarefied delusions of ‘high’ art which tended to show it as it ought to be, and ‘abstracted’. While some forms were certainly more ‘polite’ than others, a true representation of mankind had to allow for the presence of all its specimens. By composing ‘modern history paintings’ in which the most elegant forms converse with the plainest lines, Hogarth endowed variety with a new epistemological and aesthetic status that meant the inclusion of the ones and of ‘the others’. In all his pictures, it is always the human body which, from painful distortions to graceful curves, endows his art with its textural, formal and rhythmic qualities. Hogarthian beauty and grace, far from being abstract concepts, emerge as transient, “living”, physical phenomena, apprehended by the beholder through visual representations of the bodies’ natural and ‘peculiar’ movements.

Selected recent Exhibition Catalogues

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Beth Houghton
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Black And White ◽  
200Th Anniversary ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
Dutch History ◽  
Plaster Casts ◽  
History Paintings

An exhibition of ‘forgotten’ 19th century Dutch history paintings titled Het Vaderlansch Gevoel: vergeten negentiende-eeuwse schilderijen over onze geschiedenis, was shown at the RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM (24 March – 25 June 1978). The substantial 302p. catalogue which accompanied it carries illustrations of all 134 exhibits (all b/w), plus notes and a bibliography for each work, brief biographies of the artists (many of them lesser known), and introductory essays.An exhibition organized as part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Bartolini’s birth in 1977, titled Lorenzo Bartolini: mostra delle attività di tutela, was shown at the PALAZZO PRETORIO, PRATO (February – May 1978). The 303p. catalogue, published by Centro Di, has sections on the gallery of plaster casts, archival documentation and the drawings of Bartolini, plus black and white illustrations of sculptures and drawings.

Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War: The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Karal Ann Marling ◽  
William H. Goetzmann
Keyword(s):  
Mexican War ◽  
History Paintings

Stylistic features of the 1630s: the history paintings

1989 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
J. Bruyn ◽  
B. Haak ◽  
S. H. Levie ◽  
P. J. J. Van Thiel ◽  
E. Van De Wetering
Keyword(s):  
History Paintings

History without Values? Gérôme's History Paintings

2008 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-276
Author(s):  
John House
Keyword(s):  
History Paintings

Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War: The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings.

1996 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
James M. McCaffrey ◽  
William H. Goetzmann
Keyword(s):  
Mexican War ◽  
History Paintings
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