Main entry:

Uglow, Jennifer S.

Title & Author:

Hogarth : a life and a world / Jenny Uglow.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ©1997.

Description:

xviii, 794 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-770) and index.
Preface: picturing a world -- Morning 1697-1732. Smithfield muses -- Mapping the town -- Pleasure and studies -- Meeting the artists -- Stocks, opera and satires -- Great men and fools -- Imitation games -- Painting the polite -- Impolite conversations and probing ideas -- A Harlot's Progress -- Noon 1732-1748. Nobody and somebody -- The Fair and the Rake -- Liberty and property, clubs, cabals -- Allegories of healing -- City spaces -- Country, Coram and children -- The index of the mind -- Marraige a-la-mode -- Public stage, private art -- The 'forty-five -- Evening 1748-1762. Bible stories: foundling and apprentice -- 'Seiz'd, and carried before the Governor' -- Town and country -- Cruelty -- 'A wanton kind of chace': The Analysis of Beauty -- Factions and elections -- To encourage the others -- Painting and portraits, art and life -- Gambling to excess -- Sickness, societies and Sigismunda -- Signs and symbols -- Night 1762-1764. 'That devil Wilkes' -- The end of all things -- Finis.

Summary:

In 1130, at the age of thirty-three, William Hogarth began a series of six paintings called A Harlot's Progress. From humble beginnings as an engraver of silver plate, he was now well on his way to becoming one of the greatest and most popular figures of his age: a satirist with an unerring eye, an artist of flamboyant, overflowing imagination, and a painter of vibrant color and tenderness.
Jenny Uglow uncovers the man, but also the world he sprang from, immersing us in eighteenth-century London and bringing to vibrant life the scenes that became the subjects of his prints and paintings: political follies like the South Sea Bubble, gatherings in bourgeois households and fashionable salons, lurid criminal acts and trials, and wretched institutions like Bedlam or debtors' prison.

ISBN:

0374171696 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780374171698 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Artists England Biography.
Artistes Angleterre Biographies.
Artists.
London (England) In art.
England.
England London.

Form/genre:

Biography
works of art.
Biographies.
Art.
Œuvres d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196659
Call No.: ID N6797.H6.U44; ID:98-B1350
Status: Available