Book Overview
Hogarth was one of the great eighteenth-century painters, a marvelous colourist and innovator at all levels of artistic expression. As a man he was rooted in his own time and his own society. We 'read' his satirical works - The Rake's Progress, Marriage-A-La-Mode - as we read a novel, and our pleasure increases with the number of details we notice and hidden jokes we understand. David Bindman provides an illuminating guide to the satires and a vivid and incisive study of the man and his art.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195202392
ISBN13:9780195202397
Release Date:June 1981
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:216 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
a find
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
This little gem is a find, if you happen to like Hogarth. It gives you enough of the biographical and historical arc to provide a context for his work, and admirably unfolds the art for the reader. Since Hogarth's work was often social commentary, this book gives you the background a modern reader needs to understand the visual allusions that are so plentiful. Faithful reprints of his art with good detail make your exploration easier. As this is also not a newly released book, the copies can to be found at very reasonable prices. In that I love Hogarth's work, especially his sense of humor--and face it, even though there is a teaching/moralistic aspect to his approach, some of our human idiosyncrasies are presented in ways that simply make you smile--this book was an excellent purchase.
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