Hogarth, Place and Progress

About

Dr Bruce Boucher is Deborah Loeb Brice Director of Sir John Soaneís Museum. He taught for over twenty years at University College London and is the author of books on Palladio and on Italian Sculpture. He is a corresponding member of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. David Bindman retired as Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art University College London in 2005 and was Visiting Professor of the History of Art Harvard University 2010-16. He has written books on William Blake William Hogarth L.F. Roubiliac Canova and Thorvaldsen and on the Briitish response to the French Revolution. More recently he has worked on ideas of race and art and is the author of Ape to Apolloand is editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr of the series The Image of the Black in Western Art. FrÈdÈric OgÈe is Professor of British Literature and Art History at UniversitÈ Paris Diderot. His publications include two collections of essays on William Hogarth as well as 'Better in France?' The circulation of ideas across the Channel in the 18th century (Lewisburg 2005) Diderot and European Culture (Oxford 2006) and J.M.W. Turner Les Paysages absolus (Paris 2010). In 2006-07 he curated the first-ever Hogarth exhibition for the Louvre. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of Tate Britainís Advisory Council. He is currently finishing a book on Thomas Lawrence and working on an anthology of British artistsí writings. Dr Jacqueline Riding is author of Jacobites: A New History of the í45 Rebellion (2016) Basic Instincts: Love Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore (2017) and Peterloo (2018). She is currently writing a biography of Hogarth. She is a fellow of Birkbeck College the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Trustee of Turnerís House. David Bindman retired as Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art University College London in 2005 and was Visiting Professor of the History of Art Harvard University 2010-16. He has written books on William Blake William Hogarth L.F. Roubiliac Canova and Thorvaldsen and on the Briitish response to the French Revolution. More recently he has worked on ideas of race and art and is the author of Ape to Apolloand is editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr of the series The Image of the Black in Western Art.