Distributed by Homevision

Artist:William Hogarth
Medium: Video
Running Time: 50 minutes
Produced By: RM Arts

Item #: 5988
Name: Hogarth's Progress
Price: $39.95

About this video...
Like Shakespeare and Dickens, William Hogarth (1697-1764) is an artist whose name has become synonymous with the era in which he lived. Focusing more on the common man than the English gentry, Hogarth's art (The Rake 's Progress, Marriage a la Mode) creates a vivid picture of a seething 18thcentury world. He is best known for the narrative sequence of paintings he called "modern moral subjects." These mockingly detailed snapshots of manners and morals have had a far reaching influence on both the history of art and the development of the English sense of humor. Adopting Hogarth's own form, this film portrait divides the artist's life into four stages, from the child growing up in Fleet Prison to the self-made artist appointed Sergeant-Painter to the King. Interviews with experts guide viewers through Hogarth's works, which bear witness to his greatness and his comic vision of human frailty.