David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London. He is currently a Fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and he was Visiting Professor of History of Art at Harvard 2011-17. His publications include Blake as an Artist, Hogarth and his Times: Serious Comedy and Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race, 1700-1800. Since 2006 he has been the editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the series The Image of the Black in Western Art, in 12 volumes so far.
Preface
Introduction to New Edition
1. The Fear of Grub Street
2. Beginnings as a Painter
3. Modern Moral Subjects: a Reading of the Two Progresses
4. The World of the Progresses
5. The 1730s: Satire and History
6. The Connoisseurs and Comic History Painting
7. Portrait Painting
8. Hogarth's Africans
9. The Theory and Practice of Art
10. Approaches to the Public
11. Bathos
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