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Ausbrüche: William Hogarth und die Folgen I: Das Porträt.
I. Das Porträt Fünfundsiebzig Jahre nach seinem Tod tauchte William Hogarth als Akteur in dem Dokumentarroman Jack Sheppard von William Harrison Ainsworth auf, der ab Januar 1839 als Fortsetzungsgeschichte in dem vom jungen Charles Dickens herausgegebenen Literaturmagazin Bentley´s Miscellany abgedruckt wurde. Auch in The Portrait , einer der Illustrationen des Romans, die von George Cruikshank […]
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Robert Weaver VI: Baseball & Gang War
“Illustration is an essential to great painting. Abstractness cannot be equated with it; it is merely the grammar.(..) Many illustrators of today are too little concerned with the actualities of their time. Too often they merely aid and abet the pre-sold illusion of the age.” (R. Weaver, 1959)”The state of the art of illustration might […]
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Urban Apaches: Torture, Blood & Thunder (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting IV)
“Les Apaches” can be considered as an early manifestation of rebellious youth culture in Paris. They were organized in street gangs with special idioms and dress codes very similar to those of the London costermonger-subculture. In 1907 “Le Petit Journal” called the ruffian Apaches “the sore of Paris. More than 30.000 blighters standing against 8.000 […]