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Hogarth and Europe / edited by Alice Insley and Martin Myrone ; contributions by Sonia E. Barrett [and thirteen others].

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Tate, 2021.Description: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781849767682
  • 1849767688
  • 9781849767675
  • 184976767X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Painting modern life, making the modern world – London – Amsterdam – Paris – Venice – Modern painters – ‘The Dutch’ Hogarth: Cornelis Troost – Artists and cities – Modern moral narratives – Pots in Hogarth – In the company of men – An American party in a Dutch colony – Between the sheets – High life – Performing furniture – A fashionable marriage – Sexuality and seduction – The new Europeans.
Summary: It was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines, high ideals and hypocrisy, a century of intellectual, social and religious turmoil. In this fertile turbulence flourished one of Britain's greatest artists: painter, printmaker, satirist, and social critic William Hogarth, of whom the essayist and poet Charles Lamb once said, 'Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read'. Illustrating the full range of Hogarth's most important paintings and prints, this book shows them in a new light, juxtaposed with work by major European contemporaries who influenced him or took their inspiration from him in their painting of modern life - including Watteau, Chardin, Troost and Longhi. Hogarth is revealed not only as a key figure in British art history, but also as a major European artist. It is also a tale of four cities: London, Paris, Venice and Amsterdam, represented in maps from the period. The themes of city life, social protest, sexuality and satire which come to the fore in the art of Hogarth and his contemporaries are very much live today.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room HOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12178

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Tate Britain, London, 3rd November 2021 - 20th March 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211) and index.

Painting modern life, making the modern world – London – Amsterdam – Paris – Venice – Modern painters – ‘The Dutch’ Hogarth: Cornelis Troost – Artists and cities – Modern moral narratives – Pots in Hogarth – In the company of men – An American party in a Dutch colony – Between the sheets – High life – Performing furniture – A fashionable marriage – Sexuality and seduction – The new Europeans.

It was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines, high ideals and hypocrisy, a century of intellectual, social and religious turmoil. In this fertile turbulence flourished one of Britain's greatest artists: painter, printmaker, satirist, and social critic William Hogarth, of whom the essayist and poet Charles Lamb once said, 'Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read'. Illustrating the full range of Hogarth's most important paintings and prints, this book shows them in a new light, juxtaposed with work by major European contemporaries who influenced him or took their inspiration from him in their painting of modern life - including Watteau, Chardin, Troost and Longhi. Hogarth is revealed not only as a key figure in British art history, but also as a major European artist. It is also a tale of four cities: London, Paris, Venice and Amsterdam, represented in maps from the period. The themes of city life, social protest, sexuality and satire which come to the fore in the art of Hogarth and his contemporaries are very much live today.