Baroque Art (more on 'Hogarth and English caricature')

Hogarth and English Charicature Book

This is a picture book about popular art in England during the eighteenth century mainly. But what I originally set out to do was summarise the introduction which is about 11 pages long:

I have seen from reading this that I can confirm what I read in the other book ('English caricature, 1620 to the present') that the satirists of this time usually started out as copper engravers of particular paintings of other artists work, as a way to make money.
Rival print shops usd to hold exhibitions of 'The largest caricature collection in the world, 1 shilling entrance fee.'
Based as they were on the popular market and depending on a large turnover, these prints reflected what was uppermost in the publics mind, and their appeal was generally satirical. Their popularity is attested by thier huge volume.

Hogarths role as the father of English caricature is inseperable from his achievement as the first British painter of international rank, not to mention his all-absorbing interest in contemporary life and his forthright comment on it.

But it was the invention of print that gave this popular art its widest currency.

The Hogarthian approach to satire adopted circumstantial storytelling on one hand and fantastic symbolism on the other, which plays a great part in eighteenth century caricature in general. Other artists who gave a new impetus to the development of art by drawing on vital resources of the popular tradition were people like Hieronymous Bosch Bruegel.

In the bitter religious and political struggles of the reformation, popular art had also assumed the new form of political caricature. As such it flourished in the Holland during the 17th century (as it also says in 'English caricature, 1620 to the present'), and dutch caricatures also commanded the English market, until their supremecy was challenged about 1720 by the rapidly emerging English school.