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Soulier-Détis, Elisabeth

 
9780718892159: Guess at the Rest: Cracking the Hogarth Code
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ISBN 10: 0718892151 ISBN 13: 9780718892159
Editorial: Lutterworth Press, 2010

Sinopsis

An intriguing contribution to the history of 18th-century art, revealing the Masonic symbolism that pervades the work of one of Britain's greatest painters. This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth's work. The classical and Biblical references, whose ambiguity and apparent paradoxical relation with the eighteenth-century situations depicted have often been underlined, gain coherence and unity when they are analyzed in the symbolic framework of freemasonry and alchemy Hogarth was busy both using and concealing in his prints. The coded meaning is often entirely at odds with the surface one, a fact suspected but never proved by critics so far. A very original and titillating book for academics and general reader alike. Readers will be intrigued by the secrecy of symbols from mythological, biblical and Masonic references and hidden codes that have to be deciphered. Furthermore, they will be also left intrigued by the secret message that the very popular and well-known painter is attempting to deliver. Academics will be interested in the book since this thorough approach has never been proposed by any of Hogarth's scholars so far.

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Elisabeth Soulier-Détis has just retired from the position of Professor of British Eighteenth-Century at the Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier. She was director for France of a research network on eighteenth-century Europe. Her major academic interests are eighteenth-century British novelists (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne) and lately eighteenth-century British art. She founded The European Spectator, a bilingual collection published by the presses of Paul-Valéry University.

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Editorial
Lutterworth Press
Año de publicación
2010
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ISBN 10 
0718892151
ISBN 13 
9780718892159
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232
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