Hogarth: The Artist and the City

by Mark Hallett and Christine Riding

Book Overview

This beautifully illustrated book examines the whole of Hogarth's career, from his beginnings as a young and ambitious engraver in the 1720s, through to his rise to fame as a painter and printmaker in the 1730s and 1740s, and the crystallisation of his aesthetic theories in the treatise The Analysis of Beauty, published in 1753. Where previous publications have concentrated on just a part of his multifaceted career, this definitive publication examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854376624
• ISBN13: 9781854376626
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 3.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary