The Art of Riot - Hardcover

Ronald Paulson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934084069 ISBN 13: 9781934084069

Publisher: Owlworks, 2010

This book is an original contribution to our knowledge of riot in the Anglo-phone world of the past three centuries. Focusing on riotous action in pictorial and literary art, Professor Paulson distinguishes varieties and identifies constituent elements. The Art of Riot is a groundbreaking work of formal analysis and archaeological discovery.

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About the Author:

Ronald Paulson is the leading authority on the life and works of William Hogarth. Author of numerous books on literature and art history, his most recent works are Hogarth's Harlot: Sacred Parody in Enlightenment England and Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature.

Review:

'The Art of Riot lives and breathes Ronald Paulson's capacious sense of history in action. Crowds, festivals, and riots flow together and apart in paradoxical patterns. Politics, high and low, frame Paulson's richly textured readings of art from Hogarth to Ensor and fiction from Fielding to Mailer. Riot in Paulson's hands becomes a profound aesthetic form'. --John Bender, Stanford University --dustjacket

'Vintage Paulson: wide-ranging, erudite and full of provocative insight, The Art of Riot ranges magisterially from William Hogarth to Ralph Steadman and from Henry Fielding to Norman Mailer. Encompassing Britain, India and North America, it combines literary and visual analysis of the highest quality with an enviable knowledge of their contexts'.--John Brewer, California Institute of Technology --dustjacket

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