William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations
William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations

Author: Robert N. Essick

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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A major exhibition catalog on the work of William Blake, printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet. The catalog explores the influence on Blake of the master artist-printmakers at the beginnings of the Renaissance, and the inspiration he brought to the young artist-printmakers who gathered around him in the last years of his life.

William Blake's Printed Paintings
William Blake's Printed Paintings

Author: Joseph Viscomi

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781913107208

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An in-depth examination of William Blake's glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints Among William Blake's (1757-1827) most widely recognized and highly regarded works as an artist are twelve color printed drawings, or monoprints, conceived and executed in 1795. This book investigates these masterworks, explaining Blake's technique--one he essentially reinvented, unaware of 17th-century precursors--to show that these works were produced as paintings, and played a crucial role in Blake's development as a painter. Using material and historical analyses, Joseph Viscomi argues that the monoprints were created as autonomous paintings rather than as illustrations for Blake's books with an intended viewing order. Enlivened with bountiful illustrations, the text approaches the works within the context of their time, not divorced from ideas expressed in Blake's writings but not illustrative of or determined by those writings.

A Visit to William Blake's Inn
A Visit to William Blake's Inn

Author: Nancy Willard

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780152938222

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A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests and residents, human and animal, at William Blake's inn.

William Blake
William Blake

Author: William Blake

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 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.

William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius

Author: Stephen F. Eisenman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 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

Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals
Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals

Author: William Hayley

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13:

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Ballads is a collection of humorous and affectionate odes to various animals. William Hayley writes lovingly about a wide variety of animals, from man's best friend to ferocious and wild creatures such as elephants and lions. Excerpt: " Of all the speechless friends of man The faithful dog I deem Deserving from the human clan The tenderest esteem: This feeling creature formed to love, To watch, and to defend, Was given to man by powers above, A guardian, and a friend!"

William Blake in Context
William Blake in Context

Author: Sarah Haggarty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781316508107

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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.