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Guess at the Rest - Cracking the Hogarth Code (Paperback, New)
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Guess at the Rest - Cracking the Hogarth Code (Paperback, New)
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Often understood as primarily moral works, William Hogarth's oeuvre
is in truth made up of innumerable interwoven strands of
significance. By focusing on Hogarth's four greatest series, 'A
Harlot's Progress', 'A Rake's Progress', 'Marriage-a-la Mode', and
'Industry and Idleness', Soulier-Detis tugs at one of the
least-studied of these half-hidden threads - Masonic symbolism.
Hogarth's many classical and biblical references, whose ambiguity
and apparently paradoxical relation with the eighteenth-century
situations depicted have often been underlined, gain coherence and
unity when they are analysed in the symbolic framework of
freemasonry and alchemy Hogarth was busy both using and concealing
in his prints. The coded meaning that emerges is often entirely at
odds with that on the surface, a dissonance frequently suspected
but never conclusively proved by critics. Beneath the author's
incisive eye, a veritable secret language of imagery emerges to
form a coherent whole, offering an entirely new perspective on so
familiar an artist. An original and titillating book for academic
and general audiences alike, "Guess at the Rest" fascinates as it
explores Hogarth's intricate mythological, biblical and Masonic
symbols and the hidden codes they form. Even as she unearths this
particular reading of the great painter and engraver, however,
Soulier-Detis ultimately reminds us that though we may wish to
think we know Hogarth well, his dictum at the end of the caption to
The South Sea Scheme will always hold true - "Guess at the Rest you
find out more." About the Author: Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has just
retired from chair of British Eighteenth-Century Literature at the
Paul-Valery University of Montpellier. She was director for France
of a research network on eighteenth-century Europe. Her major
academic interests are eighteenth-century British novelists (Defoe,
Richardson, Fielding, Sterne), as well as eighteenth-century
British art. She also founded 'The European Spectator', a bilingual
collection.
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