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The comprehensive biography of the intriguing, pioneering artist Hogarth and his reception by an oft-contradictory audience.
In 1971, Ronald Paulson published this monumental two-volume critical biography of William Hogarth, thus establishing his own reputation as a major critic of art and literature of the eighteenth century and gaining recognition for Hogarth as a central figure in British art and culture.
In the twenty years since the book's original publication, Paulson's viewpoint on his subject has changed and his knowledge of the period has grown and been refined. In the same two decades, there has been a general growth of knowledge and interest in the eighteenth century in general and in major figures such as Defoe, Fielding, Pope, and Swift. This is the first of three volumes of a fully revised work on Hogarth, which will make the books available to a new and wider audience of readers.
In 1971, Ronald Paulson published this monumental two-volume critical biography of William Hogarth, thus establishing his own reputation as a major critic of art and literature of the eighteenth century and gaining recognition for Hogarth as a central figure in British art and culture.
In the twenty years since the book's original publication, Paulson's viewpoint on his subject has changed and his knowledge of the period has grown and been refined. In the same two decades, there has been a general growth of knowledge and interest in the eighteenth century in general and in major figures such as Defoe, Fielding, Pope, and Swift. This is the first of three volumes of a fully revised work on Hogarth, which will make the books available to a new and wider audience of readers.
Price: $115.00
Pages: 444
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
03 January 1992
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.91 in
ISBN: 9780718828547
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ART / History / General, History of art
This is an astonishing book, and I don't know when I last read anything on the 18th century from which I learned as much. It is a quite remarkably full chronicle of Hogarth's life, based on the exhaustive information Paulson has exhumed from manuscript records, from newspapers, and from the writings of his contemporaries [...]. Nothing so ambitious has been attempted for any other British artist of the period, and no one else would have the range of learning necessary to make the attempt.
— John Barrell, London Review of Books, Vol. 16, No. 7, 7 April 1994
— John Barrell, London Review of Books, Vol. 16, No. 7, 7 April 1994
List of Illustrations
Preface
From the Preface of the Frist Edition
1. Shades of the Prison House: A London Childhood, 1697-1714
2. "The Monsters of Heraldry": Apprenticeship and the Profession of Engraver, 1714-1720
3. "The Bad Taste of the Town," 1720-1724
4. A Native English History Painting: Thornhill and the "English Don Quixote," Hudibras, 1720-1726
5. Learning to Paint: Falstaff and The Beggar's Opera, 1727-1729
6. Contemporary History and Marriage, 1729
7. Conversation Pictures, 1728-1732
8. The "Modern Moral Subject": A Harlot's Progress, 1730-1732
9. Contexts (Visual and Verbal) for the Harlot
10. Publication, Reception, and Significance of the Harlot
Notes
General Index
Index of Hogarth's Works
Preface
From the Preface of the Frist Edition
1. Shades of the Prison House: A London Childhood, 1697-1714
2. "The Monsters of Heraldry": Apprenticeship and the Profession of Engraver, 1714-1720
3. "The Bad Taste of the Town," 1720-1724
4. A Native English History Painting: Thornhill and the "English Don Quixote," Hudibras, 1720-1726
5. Learning to Paint: Falstaff and The Beggar's Opera, 1727-1729
6. Contemporary History and Marriage, 1729
7. Conversation Pictures, 1728-1732
8. The "Modern Moral Subject": A Harlot's Progress, 1730-1732
9. Contexts (Visual and Verbal) for the Harlot
10. Publication, Reception, and Significance of the Harlot
Notes
General Index
Index of Hogarth's Works