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28%OFFDr Mark Hallett - Hogarth - 9780714838182 - V9780714838182
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Hogarth

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Description for Hogarth Paperback. A study of the uniquely versatile artist and brilliant social commentator. Series: Art & Ideas. Num Pages: 352 pages, 110 colour and 90 b&w illustrations, glossary, biographies, further reading, maps, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ACQ; AFC; AFH; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 696.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Art & Ideas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714838182
SKU
V9780714838182
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About Dr Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett is a lecturer in Art History at the University of York and the author of The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth.

Reviews for Hogarth
"Sets Hogarth's art and career firmly in the political and social context of his period, and carefully explores the contradictions between his subversive eye for society's underbelly and his calculating eye for the commercial opportunities offered by its overbelly."—John Spurling, RA, the magazine of the Royal Academy of the Arts On the Art & Ideas series ... Read more

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