Title: Hogarth : representing nature's machine /
Authors: Bindman, David.; Ogée, Frédéric.; Wagner, Peter, 1949-
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Hogarth, William, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: By focusing on the artist's most famous works, this collection of essays applies studies of science and philosophy from the period to give a more accurate sense of the meanings in Hogarth's art.
Contents: From text to image : William Hogarth and the emergence of a visual culture in eigthteenth-century [sic] England / Frédéric Ogée -- Hogarthian frames : the 'new' eighteenth-century aesthetics / Peter Wagner -- Matters of fact : virtual witnessing and the public in Hogarth's narratives / John Bender -- Je-sais-quoi : William Hogarth and the representation of the forms of life / Frédéric Ogée -- Hogarth's 'living machines of nature' and the theorisation of aesthetics / Michel Baridon -- Representations of time in Hogarth's paintings and engravings / Peter Wagner -- William Hogarth's Enraged musician and the cries of London / Sean Shesgreen -- The view across the city : William Hogarth and the visual culture of eighteenth-century London / Mark Hallett -- 'This truly natural and faithful partner' : Hogarth's depiction of modern life / Diana Donald -- Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode : the dialectic between precision and ambiguity / Werner Busch -- The excessive Jew in A harlot's progress / David Solkin -- Some thoughts on Hogarth's Jew : issues in current Hogarth scholarship / Ronald Paulson.