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Loading... Hogarth (original 2000; edition 2006)by Mark Hallet (Author)
Work InformationHogarth by Mark Hallett (2000)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I liked seeing the works together and reading the commentary but the art history content was usually dry and sometimes unconvincing. Skimmed. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesArt and Ideas (2000)
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)760.092The arts Printmaking and prints Printmaking and prints - modified standard subdivisions Biography; History By Place BiographyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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