Hogarth

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Uglow writes on literature, art, and social history. Her books include award-winning biographies on Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and Edward Lear, as well as group studies including The Lunar Men and the panoramic In These Times . A retired editorial director of Chatto & Windus, and former Chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, she grew up in Cumbria, and she and her husband Steve now live in Borrowdale. Klappentext William Hogarth was an artist with overflowing imagination and his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. This book showcases the portrait of a proud, stubborn, comic, vulnerable man. William Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow is a comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century and an unforgettable portrait of William Hogarth. Zusammenfassung William Hogarth was an artist with overflowing imagination and his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. This book showcases the portrait of a proud, stubborn, comic, vulnerable man.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Uglow, Uglow Jenny
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2002
• EAN: 9780571193769
• ISBN: 978-0-571-19376-9
• No. of pages: 816
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 47 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Prints, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: arts & entertainment, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Prints and printmaking, Paintings and painting