Hogarth The Artist and the City

by Hallett, Mark; Riding, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781854376961
• ISBN10: 1854376969
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

This beautifully illustrated book examines the whole of Hogarth’s career, from his beginnings as a young and ambitious engraver in the 1720s to his rise to fame as a painter and printmaker in the 1730s and 1740s, and the crystallization of his aesthetic theories in the 1753 treatiseThe Analysis of Beauty. Where previous publications have concentrated on just a part of his career, this book examines every aspect; his remarkable canvases, ranging from elegant conversation pieces to salacious brothel scenes, his vibrant drawings and sketches, and the engraved works for which he is perhaps most famous are all included.

Table of Contents

Hogarth's variety	p. 13
William Hogarth and modernity	p. 23
Introducing Hogarth : past and present	p. 33
Pictorial theatre : the 1720s	p. 55
The harlot and the rake	p. 73
Pictures of urbanity : the conversation piece	p. 95
Street life	p. 119
Marriage a-la-mode	p. 141
The English face : Hogarth's portraiture	p. 159
Crime and punishment	p. 181
High art	p. 197
Patriotism, portraiture and politics	p. 215
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