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William Blake: Complete Illuminated Books gathers the visionary works in which Blake fused poetry, design, engraving, and hand-coloured image into a single prophetic art. From Songs of Innocence and of Experience to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, America, Europe, and Jerusalem, these books unfold a symbolic universe of innocence, repression, revolution, desire, and spiritual liberation. Their style is compressed, biblical, aphoristic, and dazzlingly visual, standing apart from yet in dialogue with Romanticism, radical dissent, and the apocalyptic imagination of the late eighteenth century. Blake (1757-1827), London engraver, poet, painter, and religious visionary, lived at the margins of official culture while addressing its deepest crises. His training as an artisan shaped the illuminated method itself, while his hostility to institutional religion, industrial oppression, war, and empire gave urgency to his mythmaking. Personal visions, Swedenborgian influence, political radicalism, and an intense reading of Milton and the Bible all contributed to his unique prophetic idiom. This volume is indispensable for readers who wish to encounter Blake as he intended: not as isolated lyrics, but as integrated verbal-visual revelations. It is recommended to students of Romanticism, art history, theology, and anyone drawn to literature that remakes the imagination.
William Blake: Complete Illuminated Books gathers the visionary works in which Blake fused poetry, design, engraving, and hand-coloured image into a single prophetic art. From Songs of Innocence and of Experience to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, America, Europe, and Jerusalem, these books unfold a symbolic universe of innocence, repression, revolution, desire, and spiritual liberation. Their style is compressed, biblical, aphoristic, and dazzlingly visual, standing apart from yet in dialogue with Romanticism, radical dissent, and the apocalyptic imagination of the late eighteenth century. Blake (1757-1827), London engraver, poet, painter, and religious visionary, lived at the margins of official culture while addressing its deepest crises. His training as an artisan shaped the illuminated method itself, while his hostility to institutional religion, industrial oppression, war, and empire gave urgency to his mythmaking. Personal visions, Swedenborgian influence, political radicalism, and an intense reading of Milton and the Bible all contributed to his unique prophetic idiom. This volume is indispensable for readers who wish to encounter Blake as he intended: not as isolated lyrics, but as integrated verbal-visual revelations. It is recommended to students of Romanticism, art history, theology, and anyone drawn to literature that remakes the imagination.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028372088
ISBN-10: 8028372082
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Blake, William
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 44 mm
Von/Mit: William Blake
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2024
Gewicht: 1,152 kg
Artikel-ID: 129277779