The Visionary Art Of William Blake

Author : Naomi Billingsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838609665

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The Visionary Art of William Blake by Naomi Billingsley Pdf

William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how did he come to equate Christianity with art? How did he use images and paint to express those radical and prophetic ideas about religion which he came in time to believe? And why did he conceive of Christ himself as an artist: in fact, as the artist, par excellence? These are among the questions which Naomi Billingsley explores in her subtle and wide-ranging new study in art, religion and the history of ideas. Suggesting that Blake expresses through his representations of Jesus a truly distinctive theology of art, and offering detailed readings of Blake's paintings and biblical commentary, she argues that her subject thought of Christ as an artist-archetype. Blake's is thus a distinctively 'Romantic' vision of art in which both the artist and his saviour fundamentally change the way that the world is perceived.

Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Sculpture
ISBN : YALE:39002021698361

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William Blake, Painter and Poet by Richard Garnett Pdf

Author : Edina Adam,Julian Brooks
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066423

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William Blake by Edina Adam,Julian Brooks Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Myrone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Robert N. Essick
Publisher : Los Angeles : Hennessey & Ingalls
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Aesthetics, British
ISBN : UCAL:B4251637

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The Visionary Hand by Robert N. Essick Pdf

Author : Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534431

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William Blake by Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak Pdf

William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake’s imagination – often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive – offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change. A hybrid of text and image, Blake’s writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake’s unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake’s output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all.

Author : Raymond Lister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:957499454

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The Paintings of William Blake by Raymond Lister Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547761365

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The Greatest Works of William Blake (With Complete Original Illustrations) by William Blake Pdf

Taking his inspiration from the illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages, Blake invented the process of creating Illuminated Books. Between 1788 and early 1795 Blake published a series of fifteen Illuminated Books. He returned to creating Illuminated Books in 1804 when he began work on Milton (finished in 1808 or later) and Jerusalem. Blake committed himself in the minute particulars of producing his Illuminated Books. The process included creating a mental image, drawing, composing the design and poetry of the plate, engraving, printing, painting, compiling and selling. From inception to final production the color copy of Jerusalem was labored over for sixteen years. 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.

Author : Robin Hamlyn,Michael Phillips,Tate Britain (Gallery),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art, English
ISBN : 1854373145

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William Blake by Robin Hamlyn,Michael Phillips,Tate Britain (Gallery),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

"William Blake is one of the most influential, but also one of the most perplexing, of all British artists. Probably best known for his verses of the hymn "Jerusalem" and his poem "The Tyger," he produced an enormously varied range of visual work - including prints, illuminated books, drawings, and paintings - appealing to a more diverse audience than perhaps any other artist." "This illustrated volume, published to accompany the largest Blake exhibition ever mounted, closely examines Blake's vision, personal mythology, political views, and highly idiosyncratic painting techniques. An analysis of Blake's life-long interest in the Gothic, both as a source of his own distinctive style and as an ideal of spiritual and artistic integrity, leads into a study of his life during the 1790s, when his radical political interests and innovative printmaking techniques came together to form a totally new visionary art. This is followed by an investigation into the sources from which he developed his ideas, language, and images - including an explanation of the key characters that populated his imaginative universe. Finally, the culmination of Blake's highly original vision, his major illuminated books, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, Europe, and Jerusalem, are unveiled. Throughout, a wealth of reproductions bring Blake's vision to life." "In two opening essays, Peter Ackroyd, author of the definitive biography of the artist, introduces Blake the man, exploring the apparent contradictions of his complex personality, and Marilyn Butler, an expert on the poetry of the era, casts new light on Blake in the context of the social, cultural, and literary environment of his time."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kenneth Clark
Publisher : University of Glasgow French and German Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015675153

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Blake and Visionary Art by Kenneth Clark Pdf

Author : Kaethe Wolf-Gumpold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Artists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035006076

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William Blake: Painter, Poet, Visionary by Kaethe Wolf-Gumpold Pdf

Author : Shivashankar Mishra
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170992427

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Rise of William Blake by Shivashankar Mishra Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486430683

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Blake by William Blake Pdf

The great English artist and poet William Blake produced unique, visionary works renowned for their imaginative power and intensity. Sixteen of his most famous images (from his "illuminated" poetry volumes) are here; among them are illustrations from Jerusalem, Europe: a Prophecy, Songs of Experience, and Songs of Innocence.

Author : John Higgs
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474614337

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William Blake Now by John Higgs Pdf

The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ago, something about his work continues to haunt the twenty-first century. What is it about Blake that has so endured? In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to prove that far from being the mere New Age counterculture figure that many assume him to be, Blake is now more relevant than ever.

Author : Henry Crabb Robinson,John Thomas Smith,Alexander Gilchrist,Martin Myrone
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066614

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Lives of William Blake by Henry Crabb Robinson,John Thomas Smith,Alexander Gilchrist,Martin Myrone Pdf

A compilation of important biographical writings on William Blake, a painter, printmaker, poet, and mystical thinker who became one of the leading figures of Romanticism. William Blake (1757–1827) was a British painter, printmaker, poet, and mystical thinker who became one of the leading figures of Romanticism. This volume presents the earliest critical essay on his art by journalist and diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, reproduced here in full for the first time in English, as well as illuminating biographical texts by painter John Thomas Smith, and writer Alexander Gilchrist. An introduction by Martin Myrone, lead curator of British art to 1800 at Tate, contextualizes these writings, which provide a rich, nuanced view of the life and inventive work of both “the historical Blake” and “the invented Blake”—the artist who today occupies a revered place in the pantheon of visionary artists.