Abstract
Hogarth: Place and Progress, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 9 October 2019 – 5 January 2020.Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1 November 2019–28 February 2021.
Highlights
It is hard to know what to make of Hogarth
The Dictionary of National Biography properly describes him as a painter and engraver (Bindman 2009), but that is the least of it
Described as an iconoclast at odds with the British fine art world of his time (Solkin 1993), his work appears far less radical when viewed in the context of contemporaneous print and literary cultures (Hallett 1998; Uglow 1997)
Summary
It is hard to know what to make of Hogarth. The Dictionary of National Biography properly describes him as a painter and engraver (Bindman 2009), but that is the least of it. By focusing on the artist’s Modern Moral Subjects, the exhibition and its related publication (jointly referred to as “the project”) affiliated themselves with that tradition. Rather than pigeonholing Hogarth as a radical social critic who championed the lower classes, the project highlighted his condemnation of moral behaviors across society.
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