Hogarth, William | Peter Wagner (essay date 1995)
Peter Wagner (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Wagner, Peter. “‘Official Discourse’ in Hogarth's Prints.” In Reading Iconotexts: From Swift to the French Revolution, pp. 101-37. London: Reaktion Books, 1995.
[In the following essay, Wagner discusses Hogarth's work within the context of various contemporary discourses, maintaining that the artist's participation in such discourses was not necessarily something he could completely control.]
It is even probable that there exists one single rhetorical form shared by the dream, literature, and the image.
Barthes, ‘Rhétorique de l'image’
Let us go back to the fundamentals of image-making and this time examine it from the other side—from the viewer's gaze. … And from the inside—the social formation is inherently and immanently present in the image and not a fate or an external which clamps down on an image …
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