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

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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 centers on the upper levels of British society - the aristocracy and the mercantile class.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
150
ISBN-13:
9781843680277
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1843680270
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Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2012
Længde:
9mm
Bredde:
208mm
Højde:
287mm
Forlag:
Pallas Athene Publishers
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2012
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