William Blake Masterpieces Of Art

Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1804177075

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William Blake Masterpieces of Art by Michael Kerrigan Pdf

New edition of William Blake in the popular Masterpieces of Art series. Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic works. Presented here in this magnificent new collection, his vivid paintings and gently weaving illustrations are imprinted in the consciousness of Romantic art, but their impact on Gothic literature remains as strong and quixotic as the artist himself.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547015642

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Illustrations of The Book of Job by William Blake Pdf

William Blake is regarded as one of the greatest creative geniuses of the Romantic era, valued for the visionary power of both his poetry and his art. However, in his own time, he struggled to make ends meet and his work attracted little attention. The book contains a lengthy introduction to the life and work of Black by Norton as was as full page black and white copies of the etchings which Blake between 1823 and 1826 for his illustrated edition of the Book of Job. His Illustrations of the Book tell the Biblical story of Job, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. It relates his trials at the hands of Satan, his discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response from God. The book is a didactic poem set in a prose frame and has been included in lists of the greatest books in world literature. 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 both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify.

Author : William Blake,David Bindman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 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
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486133775

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William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations by William Blake Pdf

Commissioned in 1824 — just three years before his death — Blake's sublime watercolors are peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven and range from finished pieces to rough sketches.

Author : Martin Myrone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Kathleen Raine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : UOM:39015001801755

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William Blake by Kathleen Raine Pdf

Author : Morris Eaves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521786770

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The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by Morris Eaves Pdf

Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.

Author : Maria Tsaneva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508842752

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William Blake: Masterpieces in Colour by Maria Tsaneva Pdf

Author : Irene Langridge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547573432

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William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge Pdf

"William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work" by Irene Langridge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Sarah Haggarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316508102

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William Blake in Context by Sarah Haggarty Pdf

William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of thirty-eight lively and authoritative essays examines what Blake had in common with his contemporaries, the writers who influenced him, and those he influenced in turn. Chapters from an international team of leading scholars also attend to his wider contexts: material, formal, cultural, and historical, to enrich our understanding of, and engagement with, Blake's work. Accessibly written, incisive, and informed by original research, William Blake in Context enables readers to appreciate Blake anew, from both within and outside of his own idiom.

Author : Edina Adam,Julian Brooks
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400847471

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Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye Pdf

This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.

Author : David Bindman,William Blake,Yale Center for British Art,Art Gallery of Ontario
Publisher : [New Haven, Conn.] : Yale Center for British Art ; [Toronto] : Art Gallery of Ontario
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000008166234

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William Blake, His Art and Times by David Bindman,William Blake,Yale Center for British Art,Art Gallery of Ontario Pdf

The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the poet himself that Blake's meaning can be fully experienced. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now some 400 plates, drawn from The William Blake Trust's acclaimed six-volume Collected Edition, and reproduced under their supervision, provide for the first time ever in one volume what the London Review of Books hailed as "Sumptuous facsimiles . . . glorious colored pages . . . like peeping into a furnace of light through a crack in the door".

Author : William Blake,David V. Erdman
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1420843377

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William Blake by William Blake Pdf