Hogarth: Art and Politics

by Ronald Paulson

Book Overview

This final volume takes Hogarth from his fifty-third year to his death at sixty-seven. The period opens with Hogarth at the height of his powers; a figure of influence with the literary generation of Richardson and Fielding known to an unprecedented spectrum of English men and women. At this point, Hogarth chose to philosophize about art, extending his successful practice into aesthetic theory, in The Analysis of Beauty (1753)--partly in reaction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516994
• ISBN13: 9780813516998
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 567 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"