Sociability and portraiture from William Hogarth to Thomas Lawrence by Frédéric Ogée

“…In this essay I try to present the narrative of this remarkable blossoming, focussing on the works of a series of exceptional artists—William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence—whose works provide us with a remarkable visual chronicle of the evolutions of men, women and children in this rich moment in European history.…”
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La carriera teatrale di ‘A Harlot’s Progress’ di William Hogarth by Maria Chiara Barbieri

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Appropriating Identity: William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, and Britain’s Myth of the Self-Made Man by Jayme Yahr

“…Portraiture created in Britain during the 18th- and 19th-centuries, particularly paintings by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), exemplifies the myth of the self-made man, as well as the shift in social class dominance. …”
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AESTHETICS OF THE LITERARY IN THE PICTURESQUE IMAGES: WILLIAM HOGARTH AND THE ENGLISH LITERARY TRADITION OF THE 19th CENTURY by Anna A. Stepanova

“…The article investigates the narrative nature of the painting by the English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764). The specific character of the literary way of the image of the artist depiction and the components of the aesthetics of his work, suggesting the intertwining of literary poetics in the delineation are analyzed. …”
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Dérision de l’étranger et exaltation du Britannique dans l’œuvre de William Hogarth 1697-1764 by Isabelle Baudino

“…As a “comic history painter” William Hogarth frequently mocked his contemporaries and was much famed for his works in which he satirised the mores of his time. …”
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Caroline M. Patey, Cynthia E. Roman, and Georges Letissier (eds.), Enduring Presence. William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives by Brigitte Friant-Kessler

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O consumo de álcool segundo as gravuras Beer Street e Gin Lane de William Hogarth e as obras de John Wesley: convergências e diferenças Alcohol consumption as portrayed in William Hogarth's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane and in the works of John Wesley: similarities and differences by Helmut Renders

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Enduring Presence: William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives, ed. by Caroline Patey, Cynthia E. Roman, Georges Letissier, Peter Lang by Clare Brant

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"No remoinho da tendência-espiral": questões de estética, literatura e ciências naturais na obra de Goethe "In the vortex of the spiral tendency": questions of aesthetics, literatu... by Sabine Mainberger

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Amorous Encounters in the Satirical Print Culture of the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade by Sandra Gomez Todo

Subjects: “…masquerade; print culture; satirical prints, women’s representation; william hogarth…”
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Del espíritu de las narrativas pasadas en Oliver Twist by Anaclara Castro-Santana

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Conversations and Chimneypieces: the imagery of the hearth in eighteenth-century English family portraiture by Matthew Craske

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Image and Mask in the Painting by Francisco Goya: The Ontological and Axiological Aspects by Loukitcheva Krassimira

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Just what is it that makes English artwriting so different, so appealing? by Douglas Fordham

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Venuses on Instagram. Survival of the Figura Serpentinata in the Age of Social Media by Ondřej Váša

“…We do so through several interconnected excursions into Renaissance Neoplatonism, Michelangelo’s work, William Hogarth’s theory of beauty, 19th century hygienic discourse, and Baudrillard’s analysis of the inversion of soul-body dualism, in order to finally expose these figures as unique heirs of the Renaissance figura serpentinata.…”
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“Je ne sçai quoi”. On Animal Imagery, Evolution and Beauty by Horst Bredekamp, Kolja Thurner

“…Turning to images that are not human-made, we try to explore different image phenomena and connect them to non-human concepts of “Beauty” as historically developed by Charles Darwin’s underappreciated theory of “Sexual Selection” and, before him, trailblazed by William Hogarth.…”
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Drawing from Fancy: The Intersection of Art and Design in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London by Puetz, Anne

“…Taking the neighbourhood and milieu of the St Martin's Lane area in London as a starting point, I investigate connections between British "rococo" design and William Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty in terms of shared formal values and contemporary implications of "modernity". …”
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On the beauty of vases: Birkhoff’s aesthetic measure versus Hogarth’s line of beauty by Ronald Hübner, Emily Sophie Ufken

“…This is despite the fact that William Hogarth recognized curvature as relevant to the aesthetic evaluation of forms as early as 1753, demonstrating this with his Line of Beauty. …”
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Hanging, crushing, and shooting: animals, violence and child-rearing in Bronte fiction by Shuttleworth, S

“…The chapter also explores the interface between the child and the animal in light of the vivisection debates; rabies and passion in the Victorian cultural imaginary; and the visual imagination (William Hogarth’s prints depicting The Four Stages of Cruelty).…”

Humor e Crítica Social na Arte de Hogarth na Inglaterra Setecentista by Laila Luna de León

“…O presente artigo tem como objetivo refletir sobre a sátira política na Inglaterra do século XVIII, em particular sobre as obras do pintor e gravador William Hogarth. O artista proveniente das classes médias e contrário a uma arte acadêmica e elitista produziu uma vasta obra de sátiras, que tinham como objetivo comentar e instigar a reflexão sobre a sociedade moderna dentro de uma proposta ilustrada reformista e pedagógica. …”
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