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Hogarth, Place and Progress (Paperback)
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Hogarth, Place and Progress (Paperback)
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A highly illustrated journey through Hogarth's series paintings and
engravings, from the blockbuster Rake's Progress and Marriage a la
Mode to the enigmatic and lesser known Happy Marriage this book
offers a close analysis of place and setting in Hogarth's works' in
order to revisit the artist's complex stance on morality, society,
and the city, and the enduring appeal of his satires in the
present. William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains one of Britain's best
loved painters. His most renowned works, the series relating to
moral subjects, are rarely displayed together, and will be united
at the Soane Museum for the first time in its history. The book
also focusses tightly on Hogarth's series; The Soane Museum's own
Rake's Progress and An Election, as well as Marriage a la Mode, the
Four Times of Day, as well as the three surviving paintings of The
Happy Marriage engraved series such as Stages of Cruelty, Industry
and Idleness and Gin Lane and Beer Street. It is edited by David
Bindman, a world authority on Hogarth and comprises four essays by
leading academics, along with Bindman's own introduction to each of
the series according to the themes of 'place' and 'progress'.
Hogarth's concept of 'progress' was influenced by John Bunyan's The
Pilgrim's Progress, where the word described a journey towards
moral and spiritual redemption. Hogarth: Place and Progress will
explore how Hogarth's series explore as well a darker meaning of
progress, with narratives that lead through moral abandon and
social ostracism, to poverty, madness and death. Hogarth's series
present narratives with fully detailed characters, plots and
changes of scene. Precise locations in London play a key role in a
moral reading of Hogarth's paintings. In A Rake's Progress, the
Rake moves from the City of London to an extravagant property in
the west end, then a brothel in Covent Garden, and ultimately moves
outside London, ending up in Bedlam, where his dissolute life has
led him to insanity and death. The book will demonstrate how
Hogarth's 'Modern Moral Subjects' married the idea of progress with
the moral geography of London, in a dynamic and evolving way
throughout his own progress as an artist.
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