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Hogarth - Life in Progress (Paperback, Main)
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Hogarth - Life in Progress (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
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THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Best Paperback
of 2022 Christie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly
detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' -
Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and
compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and
artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - Professor
Linda Colley, author of The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen 'Full of
richness, originality and considered humour, unafraid to shock with
thrilling new insight ... terrific' - Dr Gus Casely-Hayford,
Director of V&A Stratford & Sky Arts 'The full technicolour
panorama of Georgian life laid out in a huge and passionate book' -
Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and author of
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court On a late
spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from
their local pub. They are beginning a journey, a 'peregrination'
that will take them through the gritty streets of Georgian London
and along the River Thames as far as the Isle of Sheppey. And among
them is an up-and-coming engraver and painter, just beginning to
make a name for himself: William Hogarth. Hogarth's vision, to a
vast degree, still defines the eighteenth century. In this, the
first biography for over twenty years, Jacqueline Riding brings him
to vivid life, immersing us in the world he inhabited and from
which he drew inspiration. At the same time, she introduces us to
an artist who was far bolder and more various than we give him
credit for: an ambitious self-made man, a devoted husband, a
sensitive portraitist, an unmatched storyteller, philanthropist,
technical innovator and author of a seminal work of art theory.
Following in his own footsteps from humble beginnings to
professional triumph (and occasional disaster), Hogarth illuminates
the work and life of a great artist who embraced the highest
principles even while charting humanity's lowest vices.
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