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Title: HOGARTH'S MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE
By: Judy Egerton, Alan Bennett
Format: Mixed media product

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ISBN 10: 1857095103
ISBN 13: 9781857095104
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Publisher: NATIONAL GALLERY COMPANY LTD
Pub. date: 1 February, 2011
Pages: 80
Description: Recounts the story of a marriage arranged between the son of a spendthrift nobleman who needs cash and the daughter of a rich City of London merchant who hopes to buy social status.
Synopsis: Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still absorb viewers after nearly three centuries, record human vice and folly with a sharp eye and cutting intelligence. This compelling book, with an accompanying DVD narrated by Alan Bennett, examines Hogarth's best-known series of paintings, Marriage A-la-Mode, and unlocks many mysteries that have surrounded this gripping artistic commentary. Marriage A-la-Mode recounts the story of a marriage arranged between the son of a spendthrift nobleman who needs cash and the daughter of a rich City of London merchant who hopes to buy social status. Love never develops, and the discordant lives of the bride and bridegroom descend into adultery and venereal disease followed by murder, execution, and suicide. Judy Egerton deciphers the visual cues and symbols Hogarth employs in his comic story of doubtful morals.
Illustrations: 11 b-w + 34 color illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: National Gallery Company Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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