Word: hogarth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caricaturists have excelled lusty, free-swinging Thomas Rowlandson in the lampooning of social manners. Lacking the brutal bite of Hogarth and Goya, he yet thoroughly impaled many of the affectations and stupidities of his period. Prolific "Rowly" was born in London in 1756 of a prosperous merchant father and a French mother. His conventional schooling was followed by a year at the Royal Academy, two years of happy, standard artist's life in Paris (bills footed by a rich French aunt...
...ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much the setting forth of personal wanderings among a people of biblical interest as the ideal endeavour to continue the older tradition of Chaucer and Spenser, resisting to my power the decadence of the English language...
Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
...turn out from a single plate. But contemporary artists usually limit their prints to sets of 25 to 200 copies, destroying their plates after they have printed the limited number. Unlike the great printmakers of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, who sold their prints for a song (Hogarth: 25? to $1.75; Goya: 30?; Dürer: 80? to $2.40), modern printmakers sometimes get as much as $100, occasionally (Zorn, Cameron, Benson, McBey) two or three times that much. But the average good print price seldom exceeds...
More unsettling than the war, her family thought, had been her literary worries. Three weeks ago Virginia Woolf finished a short novel, Between The Acts, written while she was working on her biography of Roger Fry. Husband Woolf was enthusiastic about the new book. His partner in the Hogarth Press, John Lehmann, called Between The Acts "a work of remarkable poetic power, in which her sensibility is even more naked and delicate." But Virginia felt that the end of her book was not good, the whole work was not up to the exacting Woolf standard...