Hogarth

Hogarth was one of the great eighteenth-century painters, a marvelous colourist and innovator at all levels of artistic expression.

As a man he was rooted in his own time and his own society.

We 'read' his satirical works - The Rake's Progress, Marriage-A-La-Mode - as we read a novel, and our pleasure increases with the number of details we notice and hidden jokes we understand.

David Bindman provides an illuminating guide to the satires and a vivid and incisive study of the man and his art.