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William Blake

Author : Edina Adam

Publisher : Getty Publications

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 28,55 MB

Release : 2020-08-04

Category : Art

ISBN : 1606066420

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A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake. William Blake (1757–1827) is a universal artist—an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most striking and enduring images in art. His personal struggles in a period of political terror and oppression; creativity, inventiveness, and technical innovation; and vision and political commitment keep his work relevant today. Featuring over 130 color images, this accessible yet comprehensive introduction to Blake’s achievements and ambition includes discussions of his legacy in America; relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists who preceded him; visionary imagination; and unparalleled skill as a printmaker.



William Blake and the Age of Aquarius

Author : Stephen F. Eisenman

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 19,21 MB

Release : 2017-10-17

Category : Art

ISBN : 069117525X

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William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / by Stephen F. Eisenman -- Prophets, madmen, and millenarians: Blake and the (counter)culture of the 1790s / by Mark Crosby -- William Blake on the West Coast / Elizabeth Ferrell -- William Blake and art against surveillance / Jacob Henry Leveton -- Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius / John Murphy -- "My teacher in all things": Sendak, Blake, and the visual language of childhood / Mark Crosby -- Blake then and now / W.J.T. Mitchell



William Blake

Author : William Blake

Publisher :

Page : 480 pages

File Size : 34,97 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780500600252

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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.



Songs of Innocence

Author : William Blake

Publisher :

Page : 35 pages

File Size : 27,43 MB

Release : 1789

Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts

ISBN :

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William Blake Vs the World

Author : John Higgs

Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,91 MB

Release : 2022-05-05

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781474614368

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'Fascinating' The Times 'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman 'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times 'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland 'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.



Favorite Works of William Blake

Author : William Blake

Publisher : Courier Dover Publications

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 30,17 MB

Release : 1996-02-23

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ISBN : 9780486290867

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Gift set includes Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.



The Life of William Blake

Author : Mona Wilson

Publisher :

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 44,1 MB

Release : 1927

Category : Artists

ISBN :

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"This edition has been reproduced from the limited Nonesuch Press edition of 1927, with the last revisions of the 1949 edition " Includes bibliographical references.



William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

Author : Saree Makdisi

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 421 pages

File Size : 37,86 MB

Release : 2007-11-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0226502619

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Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.



William Blake and the Moderns

Author : Robert J. Bertholf

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 16,52 MB

Release : 1983-06-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780791496640

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Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a "central voice molding modern literature and thought." The essays in this volume examine Blake's influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, and modern thought from various critical approaches. This collection maps out the lines of direct literary influences and indirect intellectual affinities that make up the tradition of enacted form. Through the use of various aspects of Blake's form and ideas, this book reasserts the idea of continuity, the drive for wholeness, and the arrival of new poetic forms. Blake is considered one of the major and most modern of Romantics. This collection positions him as a precursor of the modern, using his vision and poetry as a base for discussing a central issue in literary theory today—influence and the literary tradition—just how is the legacy of a literary artist passed on, and how is it resurrected in the works of subsequent generations.



A Guide to the Books of William Blake for Innocent and Experienced Readers

Author : Henry Summerfield

Publisher : Colin Smythe Publication

Page : 888 pages

File Size : 30,84 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN :

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The writings of William Blake were not understood by his contemporaries or the Victorians, and it was only in 1910, with the publication of Joseph Wicksteed's Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, that the long process of comprehending Blake's works seriously began. Part 1 of the present work consists of twelve chapters that are primarily intended to lead the reader who has little or no acquaintance with Blake's more difficult works through all his books. These consist of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, three early prose tractates, the eleven shorter prophetic books (including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell), the lyrics of the Pickering Manuscript, The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem, The Gates of Paradise, The Ghost of Abel and Illustrations of The Book of Job. The reader who wishes to explore a work more fully can proceed to Part II, where a headnote outlines the main scholarly views of its structure and meaning. There are two indexes providing ready access to explanations of terms and proper names.