The Other Hogarth : Aesthetics of Difference, Bernadette Fort

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William Hogarth (1697-1764) is famous for his satiric representations of high and low life in the 18th century London. In his works, he took as one of his central artistic themes the staging of otherness and difference. In a revolutionary book, a group of international art historians and cultural theorists explore this major yet overlooked dimension of Hogarth's art and aesthetics. They show that, whether Hogarth illustrates a harlot or a wealthy patroness, a gouty earl or a dissolute rake, a black servant or an effeminate parasite, affairs regarding class, gender, and race reverberate throughout his paintings and prints and profoundly inform his unique innovation, the Modern Moral Subject.Drawing on a broad selection of methodologies, the authors of the fifteen essays collected in this volume include the latest insights of cultural history, gender studies, and visual theory to look from a new perspective at a constellation of themes and issues recurring in Hogarth's work: the construction of truly di