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<p>This final volume takes Hogarth from his fifty-third year to his death at sixty-seven. The period opens with Hogarth at the height of his powers; a figure of influence with the literary generation of Richardson and Fielding known to an unprecedented spectrum of English men and women. At this point, Hogarth chose to philosophize about art, extending his successful practice into aesthetic theory, in The Analysis of Beauty (1753)—partly in reaction to the agitation for an art academy based on the French model, partly out of the conviction that his art required verbal validation, and partly (some contemporaries felt) out of hubris. At the same moment, the hard-won fabric of his reputation began to unravel. A new generation had arisen—some friendly and interested in building on Hogarth's achievement, but some determined to supercede what seemed to be a figure too insular to represent English art and culture to the world.</p> <p>The consequences—given his own doggedness and the shifting allegiances of former friends—were tumultuous, and darkened the last years of Hogarth's life. For the first time in his career he found himself apparently out of step with his times—isolated and obsole

Author

Ronald Howard Paulson

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813516943

Subjects

Art, Memoir, History