William Hogarth

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In the early 18th century, an engraver-turned-artist made his mark on the art world by producing satirical prints in series that commented on morality and society. And some of his work is used today as a teaching tool.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from How Stuff Works.com.
0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast I'm Holly Frye.
0:44.7	And I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
0:46.7	And today we're going to talk about an artist,
0:48.7	but history really involves so much more than art.
0:51.7	It involves satire and social criticism,
0:53.7	and it even gets into some legislation for artists' rights.
0:56.7	But one thing we should point out is that his satire and social criticism
1:00.7	was being made in the early 1700s.
1:02.7	When the society he was criticizing was very different than ours.
1:06.7	It was debauched in a lot of ways.
1:09.7	Yes, so there are a lot of things that are viewed very differently than we view them.
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