A scholarly analysis of music in Hogarth's satirical art, focusing on 18th-century British culture.
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A scholarly analysis of music in Hogarth's satirical art, focusing on 18th-century British culture.
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More than 70 works of Hogarth include musical references, and Jeremy Barlow's book is the first full-length work devoted to this aspect of his imagery. The first two chapters examine the evidence for Hogarth's interest in music and the problems of assessing accuracy, realism and symbolic meaning in his musical representations. Subsequent chapters show how musical details in his works may often be interpreted as part of his satirical weaponry; the starting point seems to have been his illustratio...
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Moderate focus on social satire and cultural critique of 18th-century Britain.
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Brief mentions of humiliation and social suffering in Hogarth's imagery.
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