William Hogarth Bücher

William Hogarth, war überaus innovativ. Er entwickelte neue Bildgattungen wie die 'Conversation Pieces' und die 'Modern Moral Subjects' und gilt als Vorläufer der modernen Karikaturisten. 1753 veröffentlichte Hogarth The Analysis of Beauty, eine kunsttheoretische Schrift, in der er – ganz im Geiste des Rokoko – die Schönheit von Schlangenlinien aufzeigte, deren Windungen auf der Fläche und im Raum er als 'Line of Beauty and Grace' verabsolutierte. Schönheit ist für Hogarth eine komponierte Verschlingung der Form, die das Auge und den Geist zu einer Jagd verlockt. William Hogarth war ein kontroverser und eigenwilliger Charakter. Getrieben von einem Sinn für Gerechtigkeit, ließ er keine Gelegenheit aus, mit seinen Zeitgenossen einen Streit anzuzetteln. Die Analyse der Schönheit ist die Zusammenfassung seiner moralischen und ästhetischen Prinzipien.

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This book contains 101 of Hogarth's finest and most important engravings, including all the major series or "progresses": "The South Sea Scheme," A Harlot's Progress , "A Midnight Modern Conversation," A Rake's Progress , Before and After , Marriage à la Mode , Industry and Idleness , "The March to Finchley," The Four Stages of Cruelty , "Time Smoking a Picture," "Tailpiece," and many more, including ten study sketches and paintings that show how the final works evolved.Sean Shesgreen, a foremost authority on Hogarth, has consistently selected the best states of the plates to be used in this edition and has carefully introduced them, commenting upon the artist's milieu and the importance of plot, character, time, setting, and other dimensions. A most important aspect of this book, found in no other Hogarth edition, is the positioning of the editor's commentary on each plate on a facing page. With the incredible and sometimes overwhelming amount of detail and action going on in these engravings, this is a most helpful feature.

This book contains 101 of Hogarth's finest and most important engravings, including all the major series or "progresses": "The South Sea Scheme," A Harlot's Progress , "A Midnight Modern Conversation," A Rake's Progress , Before and After , Marriage à la Mode , Industry and Idleness , "The March to Finchley," The Four Stages of Cruelty , "Time Smoking a Picture," "Tailpiece," and many more, including ten study sketches and paintings that show how the final works evolved.Sean Shesgreen, a foremost authority on Hogarth, has consistently selected the best states of the plates to be used in this edition and has carefully introduced them, commenting upon the artist's milieu and the importance of plot, character, time, setting, and other dimensions. A most important aspect of this book, found in no other Hogarth edition, is the positioning of the editor's commentary on each plate on a facing page. With the incredible and sometimes overwhelming amount of detail and action going on in these engravings, this is a most helpful feature.

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 sides of modernity. This book explores and explains the dramatic duality within Hogarth's work, and in doing so gives us a greater sense of the contradictions and complexities that existed within eighteenth-century British society.