Guess at the Rest: Cracking the Hogarth Code - Brossura

Soulier-Détis, Elisabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0718892151 ISBN 13: 9780718892159

Casa editrice: Lutterworth Press, 2010

Riassunto

An intriguing contribution to the history of 18th-century art, revealing the Masonic symbolism that pervades the work of one of Britain's greatest painters. This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth's work. The classical and Biblical references, whose ambiguity and apparent paradoxical relation with the eighteenth-century situations depicted have often been underlined, gain coherence and unity when they are analyzed in the symbolic framework of freemasonry and alchemy Hogarth was busy both using and concealing in his prints. The coded meaning is often entirely at odds with the surface one, a fact suspected but never proved by critics so far. A very original and titillating book for academics and general reader alike. Readers will be intrigued by the secrecy of symbols from mythological, biblical and Masonic references and hidden codes that have to be deciphered. Furthermore, they will be also left intrigued by the secret message that the very popular and well-known painter is attempting to deliver. Academics will be interested in the book since this thorough approach has never been proposed by any of Hogarth's scholars so far.

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Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has just retired from the position of Professor of British Eighteenth-Century at the Paul Valery University of Montpellier. She is director for France of the research network on eighteenth-century Europe. Her major academic interests are eighteenth-century British novelists (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne) and eighteenth-century British art. She is also the General Editor of The European Spectator, a bilingual collection published by the presses of Paul Valery University.

Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has just retired from the position of Professor of British Eighteenth-Century at the Paul-Valery University of Montpellier. She was director for France of a research network on eighteenth-century Europe. Her major academic interests are eighteenth-century British novelists (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne) and lately eighteenth-century British art. She founded The European Spectator, a bilingual collection published by the presses of Paul-Valery University. Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has just retired from the position of Professor of British Eighteenth-Century at the Paul-Valery University of Montpellier. She was director for France of a research network on eighteenth-century Europe. Her major academic interests are eighteenth-century British novelists (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne) and lately eighteenth-century British art. She founded The European Spectator, a bilingual collection published by the presses of Paul-Valery University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Lutterworth Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0718892151
• ISBN 13: 9780718892159
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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