Example sentences for: hogarth

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  • Book -- Hogarth: A Life and a World , by Jenny Uglow.

  • A literary critic's biography of the 18 th -century satirical English painter wins praise for "bringing [her] subject and his milieu alive" (Bruce Cook, the Washington Post Book World ). The critics accept Uglow's revisionist claim that Hogarth's famous moralizing was accompanied by a prurient fixation on sex.

  • Well before then, Johnson's political agenda moves to front and center, best revealed in a lengthy section lauding the minimalist economic and political philosophy of Calvin Coolidge (perhaps his favorite American president) and in another passage concerning Norman Rockwell, whose representations of the "magnanimity of Middle America" send Johnson into raptures: "It is now possible to predict his [Rockwell's] emergence as an Old Master, like the Dutch genre painters, especially Jan Steen, or the English moralist William Hogarth."

  • Critics also like the book's gossip about Hogarth's friends Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding.


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