Anecdotes of William Hogarth

Written by Himself

William Hogarth, Martin Myrone

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 September 2023

Art & design styles: Baroque; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Lives of the Artists

The greatest satirical painter and printmaker of his time, Hogarth was also a portraitist of uncommon acuity and an important theorist of art. His forthright character and blunt honesty shine in his autobiographical Anecdotes. This is the first new edition for nearly fifty years, and the first for over two hundred to be entirely reset and to be fully illustrated. It is a fascinating picture of a great artist and the tumultuous world he lived in and helped to shape.

An introduction by leading expert Martin Myrone illuminates the context of this invaluable memoir, which has a unique place in the history of art.

Pre-eminent in his own time, William Hogarth (1697-1764) has a claim to be the most lastingly influential figure in English art. Painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist, his work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called âmodern moral subjectsâ, perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. These will be shown together for the first time ever at the major exhibition planned for autumn 2019 at the Soane Museum, London.

Martin Myrone is Lead Curator, British Art to 1800, at the Tate and the co-author of Rude Britannia: From Hogarth to Now from Tate Publishing.

62 colour illustrations

By: William Hogarth, Martin Myrone
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 196g
ISBN: 9781843681793
ISBN 10: 184368179X
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Reviews for Anecdotes of William Hogarth: Written by Himself

"""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews"