{"product_id":"hogarth-and-europe-9781849767682","title":"Hogarth and Europe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrating the full range of Hogarth's most important paintings and prints, \u003cem\u003eHogarth and Europe\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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 alive today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the fertile turbulence of the eighteenth century flourished one of Britain's greatest artists: painter, printmaker, satirist, and social critic William Hogarth. Seen here alongside the major European contemporaries who influenced him or took their inspiration from him, Hogarth is revealed not only as a key figure in British art history, but also as a major European artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHogarth and Europe\u003c\/em\u003e casts new light on the artists and their times, focusing on the themes of social protest, sexuality, satire, and city life — centred on London, Paris, Venice, and Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455590744300,"sku":"9781849767682","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781849767682.jpg?v=1774785382","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/hogarth-and-europe-9781849767682","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}