Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”: A Reductive View of Western Art History

By Mark BenjaminDOI: 10.17613/mdyr3-xya18Last updated: January 12, 2025 4:18 PM EST Abstract Drawing on Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra and Derrida’s analysis of signs and signification, alongside Bloom’s theory of artistic influence and Wittgenstein’s theory of language games, I present a novel historiographical approach to Western art history through a dialectical examination (Hegel, 1969) of artistic…