Hogarth was a brexiteer!

[vetran]

The hole he dug?

Well you were down there with him but he was the one who got snotty.

[Whorty]

Indeed it was the Telegraph.

Cancel culture is a little fluid in its meaning but many of the actions being performed now are designed to criminalise the actions of historical figures based on today's opinions and laws. I'm all for judging history, but it is a different country.

Also the discussions about slavery and Empire are framed in restrictive lens of a short period when the west ruled the world. If we removed the UK from that period of history how would the world look now? Would we all speak Nigerian? I suspect it would be Spanish, German or French. if we removed the west I suspect we would all be speaking Chinese or Arabic.

The idea that Cancel culture resulting in no-platforming is a good thing or likely to change entrenched minds is naïve.

Hogarth is English. Of course the curators and observers are talking about his representation of Britain in this period ... that's what his art represents. If he had been painting Nigerian society, then the critique would be about that society. Are you really this dim? I worry for you, I really do.

In the remote chance warty actually reads the story the comments are in the labels and from the mouths of the curators. Linking to a web page of the catalogue is not going to get you out of the hole you dug.

I read the link from the curators as this is what they said, not what the Torygraph or Wail have chosen to make a story about

[vetran]

Hogarth is English. Of course the curators and observers are talking about his representation of Britain in this period ... that's what his art represents. If he had been painting Nigerian society, then the critique would be about that society. Are you really this dim? I worry for you, I really do.


I read the link from the curators as this is what they said, not what the Torygraph or Wail have chosen to make a story about

Having difficulty understanding multiple contexts in an argument? OK I will get the crayons.

[NotAllThere]

Are you really this dim? I worry for you, I really do.

To paraphrase a line from The Lord of the Rings: What can one do in the face of such reckless dimness? (And utter lack of self-awareness).

[Gibbon]

I going to the exhibition on Tuesday, will report back. Did some Hogarth with OU so will see how perceptions have changed.