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Pursuing Natural Beauty
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Mesplède, Sophie |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This chapter looks at the appeal of the metaphor of the chase in mid- to late eighteenth-century painting and art writing, and how its waxing, then waning, popularity resonated with both changing environmental realities and a mounting recognition of nonhuman animals as sentient beings. It starts with an analysis of two major butterfly chase paintings involving children – William Hogarth's Portrait of the Mackinen Children (1747) and Thomas Gainsborough's The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly (c. 1756) – then moves on to chart the uses and meanings of the image of artistic creation as a form of chase, and of the artist as a hunter or a hound, in an array of British writings on aesthetics which culminated with Hogarth's provocative art treatise, The Analysis of Beauty (1753). By bringing texts and visual representations into a fruitful dialogue, it suggests that resorting to such tropes contributed to destabilising the human/animal divide in an era already marked by two major cultural forces – the agro-industrial revolution and the growing cult of sensibility – which would radically transform men and women's experience of an ontologically expanding environment. Book Name: British Art and the Environment |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781003099215-13&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 165 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| Starting Page | 147 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003099215-13 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-05-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: British Art and the Environment Visual and Performing Arts Cultural Studies Children Beauty Artist Painting Hogarth Writings Butterfly Chase |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
