Title: Hogarth and his times : serious comedy /
Authors: Bindman, David; Hogarth, William, 1697-1764; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; British Museum; Wallach Art Gallery
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Hogarth, William, Exhibitions.; Art; Medicine in the Arts; Great Britain Social life and customs Exhibitions.
Abstract: "This volume ... looks at the varied reactions's to Hogarth's prints and the different identities imposed upon the artist over the centuries: witty satirist, stern moralist, libertine, aggressive self-promoter, detached observer, and man of the people."--Jacket.
Contents: 1. Whose Hogarth? -- 2. Hogarth's Public: Finding An Audience -- 3. Politeness and Roman Satire -- 4. Hogarth and 'The Spirit of Party' -- 5. Disenchantment: Hogarth, God and Science -- App. Hogarthomania and the Collecting of Hogarth / Sheila O'Connell -- Catalogue -- Redefining Hogarth: Twentieth to Eighteenth Centuries -- The Satirical Engraver and His Public -- The Targets of Satire: The Orders of Society -- The Political Stage -- Intellectual Warfare: The Analysis of Beauty and Its Reception -- Last Battles -- Index of Hogarth's Works Illustrated.