Word: hogarths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rowlandson was in fact an artist who caught the moods and madnesses of his time better than any other. As A. Hyatt Mayor, the Met's curator of prints, says of the show: "When we try to imagine England in the early 18th century, we see it through Hogarth. When we move on to the age of our Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, we see England through the thousands of prints and watercolors of Thomas Rowlandson...
...Where a Hogarth would rage, Rowlandson could not help smiling...
...India, and without much effort won wealth and honor as an attorney. When he left India for the last time at the age of 59, he disposed of a household of 63 servants and five horses. The narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings. But in any good memoir it is the man, not the times, whose flavor dominates. Hickey, neither as deep as Boswell nor as intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution and a good memory. He had no malice and little...
...lurid; Callot proves an exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe and Sir Walter Scott were admirers; and Anatole France remembered having dreams about Callot's graphic nightmares. In the last movement of his first symphony, Gustav Mahler included a Funeral March in Callot's Manner...
...stockinged, altogether fiendish young ladies roasted oxen in their rooms, made dissenters walk the plank, fired machine guns down the halls ("Girls! Girls! A little less noise please"). He spread his humor through weekly features for Punch and London's News Chronicle, including a cartoon-strip parody on Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and illustrations for books and magazines. Now, at 40, Searle is developing his more serious side (he conveniently blew up St. Trinian's with an A-bomb). He prefers to be "something of a roving reporter," recently completed a distinguished book...