| The Analysis of Beauty Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hogarth, William (Author), Paulson, Ronald (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0300073461 ISBN-13: 9780300073461 Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: Born 300 years ago in London, William Hogarth established himself as a central figure in 18th-century English culture through his paintings, engravings, and outspoken art criticism. In the development of English aesthetics, his ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY takes the significant position of recognizing the value of a middle range for appeal to the everyday world of human choice and contingency. 24 illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | History - General - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| LCCN: 97-26266 |
| Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.48" W x 8.49" (0.82 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Born three hundred years ago in Smithfield, London, William Hogarth established himself as a central figure in eighteenth-century English culture through his paintings, engravings, and outspoken art criticism. In this new edition of Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty--a unique work combining theory with practical advice on painting--Ronald Paulson includes the complete text of the original work; an introduction that places the Analysis in the tradition of aesthetic treatises and Hogarth's own moral works; extensive annotation of the text and accompanying illustrations; and illuminating manuscript passages that Hogarth omitted from the final printed version. In the development of English aesthetics, the Analysis of Beauty takes a position of high significance. Hogarth's stature in his own time suggests the importance of his attempt to systematize and theorize his own artistic practice. What he proposes is an aesthetics of the middle range, subordinating both the Beautiful and the Sublime to the everyday world of human choice and contingency--essentially the world of Hogarth's own modern moral subjects, his engraved works. |
