Hogarth and Europe

Hardback

Main Details

Title Hogarth and Europe
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Martin Myrone
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 265,Width 210
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1600 to c 1800
Individual artists and art monographs
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
ISBN/Barcode 9781849767682
ClassificationsDewey:769.92
Audience
General
Illustrations 200

Publishing Details

Publisher Tate Publishing
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publication Date 21 October 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines, high ideals and hypocrisy, the Enlightenment and racial inequity, 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.

Author Biography

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