Hogarth / Mark Hallett.
By: Hallett, Mark [author]
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BookSeries: Art & ideas: Publisher: London : Phaidon Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.Content type: rdacontent Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714838187 (paperback).Subject(s): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 | Painting, BritishDDC classification: 759.2 HOG | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.2 HOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00232339 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.2 HOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00088989 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
William Hogarth (1697-1764) is certainly one of the most versatile, innovative and celebrated of all British artists. He lived at a time when Britain was emerging as an increasingly urbanized, commercialized and aggressively imperial power. Like many other artists, he exploited and benefited from these changes in British society. Among his contemporaries, it was Hogarth who commented most brilliantly on society - both positively and negatively. His work celebrates the benefits of commerce, politeness and patriotism while simultaneously focusing on the corruption, hypocrisy and prejudice they brought in their wake.
In paint and in print we are shown the two contrasting sides of modernity. This book explores and explains the dramatic duality within Hogarth's work, and in doing so gives us a greater sense of the contradictions and complexities that existed within eighteenth-century British society.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-343) and index.
Introduction: 'The highest and lowest Life' -- 1. Ink: carving out a career -- 2. Paint: talking pictures -- 3. Sex, disease and pity: “A Harlot's Progress” -- 4. Satire and the city: the painter of modern London -- 5. Charity and community: hospital painting -- 6. Foreign Affairs: “Marriage à la Mode” -- 7. Black and white: a tale of two cities -- 8. Design for life: “The Analysis of Beauty” -- 9. Faction: art, politics and propaganda -- 10. Exposure and retreat: the final years -- 11. Afterlife: reinventing Hogarth.