Basic Instincts – Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore

Name: Basic Instincts – Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore
Brand: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd

Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (1692\u20131780), an artist of status and substance in his day, who is now largely unknown. It takes as its focus Highmore\u2019s small oil painting known as The Angel of Mercy (1746), one of the most original and controversial images in 18th-century British art. The painting depicts a woman in fashionable mid-18th-century dress strangling the infant lying on her lap. A cloaked, barefooted figure cowers to the right as an angel intervenes, pointing towards the Foundling Hospital, the recently built refuge for abandoned infants, in the distance. The image attempts to address one of the most disturbing aspects of the Foundling Hospital story \u2013 certainly a subject that\n\nBasic Instincts \u2013 Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore\nLove, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new i;