Hogarth /
by David Bindman.
- 216 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 21 cm
- World of art .
- World of art .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.The fear of Grub Street -- 2. Beginnings as a painter -- 3. Modern moral subjects : a reading of the two progresses --4. The world of the progresses -- 5. The 1730s : satire and history -- 6. The connoisseurs and comic history painting -- 7. Portrait painting -- 8. The theory and practice of art -- 9. Approaches to the public -- 10. Bathos.
"Hogarth was one of the great eighteenth-century painters, a marvellous colourist and innovator at all levels of artistic expression. As a man he was rooted in his own time and his own society. We 'read' his satirical works - The Rake's Progress, Marriage-a-la-Mode - as we read a novel, and our pleasure increases with the number of details we notice and hidden jokes we understand. David Bindman provides an illuminating guide to the satires and a vivid and incisive study of the man and his art." -- Back cover.