The display of violence in Philippe-Auguste Hennequin's "The Remorse of Orestes"

• Autores: Lela Graybill
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 37, Nº. 5, 2014, págs. 940-959
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Philippe-Auguste Hennequin's 'The Remorse of Orestes' won the Grand Prize at the Salon of 1800, yet due to extensive damage sustained from improper storage in the nineteenth centruy it has been long out of view, largely neglected in art-historical scholarship. This essay draws new attention to the historical and philosophical significance of Hennequin's painting to argue that, despite its classical subject matter, 'The Remorse of Orestes' suggested new meanings for the display of violence in modern society. In 'The Remorse of Orestes' Hennequin rejected the ennobling catharsis the ancients had sought in tragic plaesure, and instead articulated a fantasy of trauma appropriate to the paradoxes of modern liberal selfhood.