The Ordering and Disordering of Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Barlow, Paul N Barlow (0000-0003-4808-6539, Northumbria University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 258-276 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2014.945200 |
| OpenAlex | W2116145805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article asks why Brown’s Work (1852–65) has had such an ambiguous position in the history of art – repeatedly, even obsessively, discussed, but also regularly dismissed as a failure. This article argues that Brown’s critics have failed to understand his distinctive development of the traditions of Hogarth, which run counter to the stylistic devices that have typically been coded as ‘modern’ or ‘avant-garde’. Brown consciously reframes Hogarth’s compositional techniques and pictorial rhetoric in order to produce an image built around compressed and conflicting patterns of pictorial order. Brown generates multiple irreconcilable readings of the world he portrays and of his own methods of portraying it
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Rhetoric · Art History and Market Analysis · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |