Author : William Blake
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192811677
The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the beautiful color reproductions of the plate. The book is printed on vellum.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Tate Enterprises Ltd
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1849761361
In 1809 the little-known artist William Blake held an exhibition of 16 paintings in a private house in Soho in the west end of London. Works inspired by Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and John Milton's "Paradise Lost" sat alongside biblical scenes and Arthurian legend. The exhibition was not a success; the only review in the press was extremely unfavourable and few of the public came. One of those who did was the poet Charles Lamb, who later described the pictures as 'hard, dry, yet with grace', and the catalogue that accompanied the show as 'mystical and full of vision'. It is this catalogue that Tate Publishing are once again making available. In it, the scale and range of Blake's ambition are made plain, along with his theories on painting, his unsparing critiques of other artists and some extraordinary insights into the working of his mind. The only detailed writing on art that remains to us by Blake, it throws light on all his subsequent artistic enterprises, including the illuminated books for which he is perhaps most famous. Part commentary and part manifesto, his catalogue is as radical as it is in places eccentric (he claims at one point to have been transported in a "vision" back to the classical world). Fully illustrated in colour with reproductions of surviving works originally in the exhibition, the book includes an illuminating essay by leading authority on British art Martin Myrone, Lead Curator of Pre-1800 Art at Tate Britain, making it an essential purchase for all of those wanting to know more.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780691001456
The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations of the designs. The Continental Prophecies, which comprises "America," "Europe," and "The Song of Los," presents Blake's critical reckoning with the history of his own times. Marked by a particularly close integration of word and image, the books form a mythical plot from historical events and criticize the intricate structure of social oppression that the author attributes to organized state religion. Each of the three books attempts to point a way toward the process of millennial liberation. These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's Illuminated Books, including Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (now available in paperback), The Early Illuminated Books, and Milton, A Poem, all published by Princeton University Press.
Author : William Blake
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781409936640
William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake s work is now considered seminal in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. Once considered mad for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity, as well as the philosophical and mystical undercurrents that reside within his work. His work has been characterised as part of the Romantic movement. Blake s first collection of poems, Poetical Sketches, was published circa 1783. In 1788 Blake began to experiment with relief etching, a method he would use to produce most of his books, paintings, pamphlets and poems. His other works include: Tiriel (1789), Songs of Innocence (1789), The Book of Thel (1789), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), The French Revolution (1791), Songs of Experience (1794) and The Ghost of Abel (1822).
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691001487
Milton is a difficult and cryptic poem for those uninitiated in the ways of Blake's allusive and allegorical style. In an introductory essay, the editors directly address the nature of the poem's complexity, demonstrate how Blake's methods set out to disconcert conventional concepts of time, space, and human identity, and suggest some ways readers coming to Milton for the first time can understand and enjoy the challenges it offers. The editors also present a plate-by-plate commentary on how the illustrations contribute to the creation of a composite, visual-verbal experience. The extensive notes to the newly-edited letterpress text will also assist readers through Milton, its central themes and its byways, its heights and its depths. An equally helpful introduction and notes are provided for the three shorter works. Scholars will find much new information in this volume.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
An illustrated version of the folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.
Author : William Blake
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500600252
In his illuminated books,William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blakes twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blakes text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.
Author : William Blake
Publisher :
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
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Publisher : Paddington Press, Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN :
With a new introduction by Michael Marqusee.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2017-06-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781548252021
William Blake (1757 -1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His so-called prophetic works were said by 20th century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick St.) in Soho, London. He was the third of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. He attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten, and was otherwise educated at home by his mother Catherine Blake. Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St James's Church, Piccadilly, London. The Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake, and remained a source of inspiration throughout his life. In this book: Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience INTRODUCTION THE SHEPHERD THE ECHOING GREEN THE LAMB THE LITTLE BLACK BOY THE BLOSSOM THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER THE LITTLE BOY LOST THE LITTLE BOY FOUND LAUGHING SONG A CRADLE SONG THE DIVINE IMAGE HOLY THURSDAY NIGHT SPRING NURSE'S SONG INFANT JOY A DREAM ON ANOTHER'S SORROW SONGS OF EXPERIENCE INTRODUCTION EARTH'S ANSWER THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE HOLY THURSDAY THE LITTLE GIRL LOST THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER NURSE'S SONG THE SICK ROSE THE FLY THE ANGEL THE TIGER MY PRETTY ROSE TREE AH, SUNFLOWER THE LILY THE GARDEN OF LOVE THE LITTLE VAGABOND LONDON THE HUMAN ABSTRACT INFANT SORROW A POISON TREE A LITTLE BOY LOST A LITTLE GIRL LOST A DIVINE IMAGE A CRADLE SONG THE SCHOOLBOY TO TIRZAH THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD The book of Thel Poetical sketches To Spring To Summer To Autumn To Winter To the Evening Star To Morning Fair Eleanor There is no natural religion All Religions are One To Nobodaddy Proverbs of Hell Of the gates To the Accuser Who Is The God of This World Visions of the Daughters of Albion The Land of Dreams Satiric verses and epigrams from Blake's Notebook The marriage of Heaven and Hell The Argument THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL A MEMORABLE FANCY PROVERBS OF HELL A MEMORABLE FANCY A MEMORABLE FANCY A MEMORABLE FANCY A MEMORABLE FANCY A SONG OF LIBERTY CHORUS An Island in the Moon America a Prophecy The Book of Urizen The Book of Ahania The Book of Los The Song of Los Songs and Ballads A Cradle Song To my Mirtle Eternity To Nobodaddy Soft Snow Merlins prophecy Day The Fairy The Kid Morning The Birds Dedication to Blake's Illustrations to Blair's Grave, printed To the Queen From Blake's Notebook A Separate Manuscript With Blake's Illustrations to Gray's Poems To Mrs Ann Flaxman The Pickering Manuscript The Golden Net The Mental Traveller The Land of Dreams Mary The Crystal Cabinet The Grey Monk Auguries of Innocence Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell William Bond Mr Blake's Nursery Rhyme
