Hogarth and Europe

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It was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines, high ideals and hypocrisy, a century of intellectual, social and religious turmoil. In this fertile turbulence flourished one of Britain’s greatest artists: painter, printmaker, satirist, and social critic William Hogarth, of whom the essayist and poet Charles Lamb once said, ‘Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read’. Illustrating the full range of Hogarth’s most important paintings and prints, this book shows them in a new light, juxtaposed with work by major European contemporaries who influenced him or took their inspiration from him in their painting of modern life – including Watteau, Chardin, Troost and Longhi. Hogarth is revealed not only as a key figure in British art history, but also as a major European artist. It is also a tale of four cities: London, Paris, Venice and Amsterdam, represented in maps from the period. The themes of city life, social protest, sexuality and satire which come to the fore in the art of Hogarth and his contemporaries are very much live today.

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Weight 1222 g
Dimensions 21.7 x 27.3 cm
Publisher name Tate Publishing
Publication date 31 March 2022
Number of pages 208
Format Hardback
Contributors Edited by Martin Myrone and Alice Insley, Contributions by Sonia Barrett, Josephina de Fouw, Meredith Gamer, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Temi Odumosu, Lubaina Himid, Paul Knolle, Gerhard de Kok, Stacey Sloboda, Lars Tharp, Hannah Williams, and Jonny Yarker
Dimensions 21.7 x 27.3 cm
Weight 1222 g

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Martin Myrone is Convenor, British Art Network, at the Paul Mellon
Mellon Centre, London
Alice Insley is Assistant Curator at Tate Britain.