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"Hogarth": Tate Britain, London.(Exhibition notes)(William Hogarth)
"Hogarth" Tate Britain, London. February 7, 2007-April 29, 2007
It is clear from the major new exhibition in London's Tate Britain that the artist William Hogarth was seriously politically incorrect. His famous satirical series of pictures and prints such as A Harlots Progress (1732), A Rake's Progress (1734), Industry and Idleness (1747), and The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751) are all unflinchingly moral tales of individuals who chose wicked modes of conduct--betrayal, profligacy, idleness, and cruelty that led them inexorably to imprisonment and execution. In one case, the earthly penalty even went beyond death itself; as we see his corpse being handed over to ...
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