Ronald Paulson

Ronald Paulson is the author of a three-volume study of Hogarth, two volumes of which have so far been published.

Letter

Whose Hogarth?

7 April 1994

While I appreciate John Barrell’s generous review of my Hogarth (LRB, 7 April), at the risk of being argumentative I feel I should comment on the fact that he uses his review as a pretext for answering my criticism of David Solkin’s Painting for Money in an earlier LRB (LRB, 4 November 1993). (The reader might not guess from Barrell’s review that Solkin devotes 15 pages to Hogarth out of three...
Letter

Whose Hogarth?

4 November 1993

While I appreciate John Barrell’s generous review of my Hogarth (LRB, 7 April), at the risk of being argumentative I feel I should comment on the fact that he uses his review as a pretext for answering my criticism of David Solkin’s Painting for Money in an earlier LRB (LRB, 4 November 1993). (The reader might not guess from Barrell’s review that Solkin devotes 15 pages to Hogarth out of three...

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The view from the street

John Barrell, 7 April 1994

In the early Eighties, the main debate – though quarrel might be the better word – among historians of British art in its ‘great century’, from Hogarth to Turner, was...

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Andrew Forge writes about the painter Frank Auerbach and the writer Robert Hughes, and about works of art in a dark age

Andrew Forge, 27 June 1991

The New York art scene in the Eighties presented spectacle of almost unrelieved decadence, in which the ‘virtues’ of the Reagan era ruled. In this desert of greed, vanity and...

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