| Hogarth Contributor(s): Hallett, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714838187 ISBN-13: 9780714838182 Publisher: Phaidon Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: 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 within eighteenth-century British society itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | European - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 769.92 |
| LCCN: 2001430940 |
| Series: Art & Ideas |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.41" W x 8.63" (1.55 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hogarth (1697-1764) is 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. His work celebrates the benefits of commerce, politeness and patriotism, while simultaneously focusing on the corruption, hypocrisy and prejudice they brought in their wake. |