The Illuminated Blake

Author : William Blake,David Bindman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500600252

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William Blake by William Blake,David Bindman Pdf

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,David V. Erdman
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035477145

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The Illuminated Blake by William Blake,David V. Erdman Pdf

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 : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691001480

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Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works by William Blake Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651753559

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The Gates of Paradise by William Blake Pdf

Author : William Blake,David V. Erdman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031686491

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The Illuminated Blake by William Blake,David V. Erdman Pdf

This book presents William Blake's illuminated works enabling words and images to be read and seen as one. The accompanying text discusses the salient points of each plate, and directs attention to the poet's graphic symbolism.

Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137378019

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Blake's Drama by Diane Piccitto Pdf

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Author : W.J. Thomas Mitchell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780691196268

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Blake's Composite Art by W.J. Thomas Mitchell Pdf

Can poem and picture collaborate successfully in a composite art of text and design? Or does one art inevitably dominate the other? W.J.T. Mitchell maintains that Blake's illuminated poems are an exception to Suzanne Langer's claim that "there are no happy marriages in art—only successful rape." Drawing on over one hundred reproductions of Blake's pictures, this book shows that neither the graphic nor the poetic aspect of his composite art consistently predominates: their relationship is more like an energetic rivalry, a dialogue between vigorously independent modes of expression. W.J.T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art and Design at the University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486245489

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Blake's "America, a Prophecy" ; And, "Europe, a Prophecy" by William Blake Pdf

35 plates in full color. Facsimile edition based on rare, priceless originals engraved and hand-colored by Blake himself.

Author : Geoffrey Keynes
Publisher : London : Trianon Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
ISBN : LCCN:nun00462118

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A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet by Geoffrey Keynes Pdf

Author : William Blake,David V. Erdman
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015000659345

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The Illuminated Blake by William Blake,David V. Erdman Pdf

An illustrated version of the folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.

Author : Joseph Viscomi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Illustration of books
ISBN : 069106962X

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Blake and the Idea of the Book by Joseph Viscomi Pdf

His analysis of these procedures reveals that the Illuminated Books were produced in small editions and not, as is assumed, one copy at a time and by commission.

Author : Martin Myrone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691198316

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William Blake by Martin Myrone Pdf

"William Blake is a universal artist--an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets, and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires to the ideals of personal, spiritual, and creative liberty. His heroic story has inspired an invigorated generations. His personal struggles during a period of political terror and oppression, his technical innovations, and his political commitment all remain deeply relevant today. This book presents a comprehensive overview of Blake's work as a printmaker, poet, and painter, foregrounding his relationship with the art world of his time and telling the stories behind many of his most iconic images."--

Author : Minna Doskow
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838630901

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William Blake's Jerusalem by Minna Doskow Pdf

Jerusalem represents the culmination of Blake's artistic endeavor in poetry and picture. The author approaches Blake's masterpiece from within rather that without, in an attempt to find a clue to the poem's structure in the poetry itself.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : BSB:BSB00076234

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Songs of Innocence by William Blake Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547681397

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ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE & THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION by William Blake Pdf

All Religions are One is the title of a series of philosophical aphorisms by William Blake, written in 1788. Following on from his initial experiments with relief etching in the non-textual The Approach of Doom (1787), All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion represent Blake's first successful attempt to combine image and text via relief etching, and are thus the earliest of his illuminated manuscripts. As such, they serve as a significant milestone in Blake's career. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.