The Analysis of Beauty - Hardcover

Hogarth, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300073356 ISBN 13: 9780300073355

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1997

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Book by Hogarth William

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Reseña del editor:

Born three hundred years ago in Smithfield, London, William Hogarth established himself as a central figure in eighteenth-century English culture through his paintings, engravings, and outspoken art criticism. In this new edition of Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty-a unique work combining theory with practical advice on painting-Ronald Paulson includes the complete text of the original work; an introduction that places the Analysis in the tradition of aesthetic treatises and Hogarth's own "moral" works; extensive annotation of the text and accompanying illustrations; and illuminating manuscript passages that Hogarth omitted from the final printed version. In the development of English aesthetics, the Analysis of Beauty takes a position of high significance. Hogarth's stature in his own time suggests the importance of his attempt to systematize and theorize his own artistic practice. What he proposes is an aesthetics of the middle range, subordinating both the Beautiful and the Sublime to the everyday world of human choice and contingency-essentially the world of Hogarth's own modern moral subjects, his engraved works.

Biografía del autor:

Ronald Paulson is Mayer Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, including a biography of Hogarth, a catalogue of his engravings, and studies of Hogarth in the contexts of eighteenth-century painting, literature, and the British tradition of aesthetics.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0300073356
• ISBN 13: 9780300073355
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Paulson Ronald