Hogarth (eBook)

Life in Progress

Jacqueline Riding (Autor)

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2021
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-611-7 (ISBN)

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Splendidly vivid, richly informative and remarkably researched ... this comprehensive study must surely be the definitive work on Hogarth.

William Hogarth is too easily seen as the John Bull of painters, a bluff xenophobe who showed British life in all its earthiness and humour. Jacqueline Riding, however, reveals a far more nuanced and interesting man

An evocative portrait of the artist ... wonderfully meandering and original

Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature

If you are not familiar with the particular genius of Hogarth, this is the book through which to discover it. And if you are a fellow Hogarth fanatic then you are in for an exquisite treat. This is a special book that drops you heart first into Hogarth's world - like the great man's canvasses, it is full of richness, originality and considered humour, unafraid to shock with thrilling new insight

In this marvellous and timely new biography, Jacqueline Riding makes sensitive and imaginative use of a wide range of often difficult and neglected sources, offering in the process a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man

Exhilarating ... [Riding] sets out to present to us 'a more rounded Billy Hogarth', and, by and large, she succeeds. There he is, with all his feuds and flarings, his warmth and conviviality, his occasional paranoia ... Only a killjoy would deny the charm of this picaresque narrative

[An] excellent new biography ... Riding is particularly good on how the boy who was born into modest circumstances in 1697 spent much of the first half of his life wanting to be a 'proper' artist dealing with grand, historical subjects.

An entertaining ... richly worked and varied "progress" ... amid the displays of wounded vanity and cantankerous self-assertion, there remains something hugely impressive, and rather attractive, in the Hogarth who emerges from these pages

The definitive life of Hogarth. The full technicolour panorama of Georgian life laid out in a huge and passionate book

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2021
• Zusatzinfo: integrated b&w drawings2 plate sections- 8
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-611-X / 178283611X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-611-7 / 9781782836117