Hogarth on High Life: The Marriage a La Mode Series from Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg's Commentaries

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Jean-Andre Rouquet

Hogarth on High Life

The Marriage a La Mode Series from Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg's Commentaries

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jean-Andre Rouquet, Arthur C. Wensinger , W. B. Coley

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Pallas Athene Publishers
01 September 2023

History of Art & Design Styles; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings

Marriage a la Mode is the most famous of William Hogarth's 'progresses' or series paintings, the story of a marriage de convenance and its unhappy consequences in fashionable 18th-century London. Contemporaries relished teasing out the meaning of all its rich detail, and the most extensive and popular of all the commentaries on the artist's accomplishment: was that of the witty, many-sided German, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Brilliantly translated, thoroughly annotated, this text is accompanied by the earlier and less-known commentary by Hogarth's friend, the French-Swiss enameller Jean-Andre Rouquet, and by a selection of Lichtenberg's remarks (in letters to friends) on his purposes and problems in interpreting Hogarth's work. Included also is another and very rare 'explanation' of the plates, an anonymous 1746 pamphlet titled Marriage A-la-Mode-An Humorous Tale, in Six Cantos. A foreword on Lichtenberg, and an historical essay on Hogarth's work by Mr. Coley, supply necessary background on artist and commentary. Of Hogarth's greatness there is little that need be said. But it is worth noting that, of his several 'progresses' or 'modern moral subjects', only Marriage a la Mode centres on the upper levels of British society the aristocracy and the mercantile class.

AUTHOR: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, professor of physics at Gottingen (1742-1799), was a man of varied interests and a shrewd, kindly observer of the human scene; his aphorisms in particular demonstrate why he is considered to have been one of the sharpest intellects of the Enlightenment, and one of its finest prose writers. His commentaries on Hogarth have led a recent critic to speak of him 'simply Hogarth's best interpreter, realizing in words the artist's visual score, and often interpolating a virtuoso cadenza of his own.'

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jean-Andre Rouquet, William Hogarth
Edited by: Arthur C. Wensinger, W. B. Coley
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 285mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 538g
ISBN: 9781843680277
ISBN 10: 1843680270
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, professor of physics at Gottingen (1742-1799), was a man of varied interests and a shrewd, kindly observer of the human scene; his aphorisms in particular demonstrate why he is considered to have been one of the sharpest intellects of the Enlightenment, and one of its finest prose writers. His commentaries on Hogarth have led a recent critic to speak of him 'simply Hogarth's best interpreter, realizing in words the artist's visual score, and often interpolating a virtuoso cadenza of his own.'

Reviews for Hogarth on High Life: The Marriage a La Mode Series from Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg's Commentaries

'Simply Hogarth's best interpreter, realizing in words the artist's visual score, and often interpolating a virtuoso cadenza of his own.' Ronald Paulson