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Hogarth and his times : serious comedy / David Bindman.

Title
Hogarth and his times : serious comedy / David Bindman.
Author
Bindman, David
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
  • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
  • British Museum
  • Wallach Art Gallery
Description
208 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
"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.
Alternative Title
Serious comedy
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "Published in association with British Museum Press and the Parnassus Foundation"--T.p. verso.
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London, Sept. 26, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998, and at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Jan. 28-April 19, 1998, and at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, N.Y., Sept. 15-Nov. 21, 1998.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-205) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0520212991 (cloth)
  • 0520213009 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^97020496^
OCLC
  • 36900938
  • SCSB-12224135
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library