{"product_id":"hogarth-9780571193769","title":"Hogarth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country,  his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted the great and good but also the common people. His art is comically exuberant, ''carried away by a passion for the ridiculous'', as Hazlitt said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny Uglow, acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Gaskell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNature''s Engraver\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn These Times,\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the man, but also the world he sprang from and the lives he pictured. He moved in the worlds of theatre, literature, journalism and politics, and found subjects for his work over the whole gamut of eighteenth century London, from street scenes to drawing rooms, and from churches to gambling halls and prisons. After striving years as an engraver and painter, Hogarth leapt into lasting fame with \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarlot''s Progress\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Rake''s Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, but remained highly critical of the growing gulf between the luxurious lives of the ruling elite and the wretched poverty of t\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403069235543,"sku":"9780571193769","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571193769.jpg?v=1730482298","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hogarth-9780571193769","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}