Hogarth and Europe - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849767688 ISBN 13 : 9781849767682

Editeur : Tate Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alice Insley is Assistant Curator at Tate Britain. Martin Myrone is Convenor, British Art Network, at the Paul Mellon Mellon Centre, London

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tate Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849767688
• ISBN 13: 9781849767682
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Myrone Martin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible