Описание: In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience-social, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic.
He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that never ends. Following Blake's life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake's poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author's goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite.
The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreciate Blake's imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of our perception.
Описание: Why did the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti come to dominate the cultural geography of England between 1850 and 1910? And why, having attained that kind
of eminence, did Rossetti's star decline so precipitously with the advent of Modernism? Finally, what is there about Rossetti's work and its historical aftermath that makes these questions
important ones to ask? The cultural and aesthetic problems raised by those questions are the subject of this fascinating book. Jerome McGann, an eminent authority on Rossetti,
demonstrates the programmatic aims of Rossetti's innovative multimedia work by focusing on two issues, one philosophical and one cultural. First, McGann shows how in Rossetti's work
high-order thinking processes are modeled and executed as aesthetic practices.
Second, from Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelite 'art of the inner standing point' McGann argues that
Rossetti forces a revision of the cultural norms commonly used for evaluating artistic success and failure.
Автор: David Bindman Название: William Blake: comp illuminated book ISBN: 0500282455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500282458 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 6600.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume contains every page of Blake`s 20 or so illuminated books, reproduced in facsimile. It features his great prophetic poems, for example, "Jersualem" and "Songs of Innocence and of Experience".
Описание: "Visionary" writers, says Edward Ahearn in this original book, seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the "real," using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations in their work. Their fiction expresses rebellion against all the values of Western civilization--personal, sexual, familial, religious, moral, societal, and political. Yet even though they are anti-realistic, they do react to specific aspects of modern reality, such as the recurring promise and failure of social revolution. Ahearn, who finds this form at once exhilarating, immensely disturbing, vital, and subversive, explores the work of a wide variety of authors who have contributed to the genre from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the appearance of visionary writing in the work of William Blake, Ahearn traces the development of the form in texts by widely scattered authors writing in French, German, and English. He includes Novalis, Lautreamont, Breton, William Burroughs, and contemporary feminists Monique Wittig and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. Quoting liberally from these authors, Ahearn summarizes the works and places them in context. General readers, as well as those who have studied these authors, will find this book an extraordinarily interesting tour of this little recognized and frequently misunderstood genre.
Автор: Bethan Stevens Название: William Blake ISBN: 0714126454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714126456 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 1648.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Takes a look at the highlights of William Blake`s career as an artist and a poet, with colour illustrations of forty-five of his striking and unusual works. Beginning with a brief life-story, focussing on interesting aspects of his life and personality, this book investigates the influence of artists who were his contemporaries.
Автор: David Bindman Название: William Blake (60th Ann ed) ISBN: 0500600252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500600252 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 4942.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An edition produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains the pages of William Blake`s twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, and an appendix with all Blake`s text set in type.
Автор: Gavin Turk Название: An Alphabet by Peter Blake ISBN: 0955215455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780955215452 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 3127.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Accompanies the exhibition at the Paul Stopler Gallery in Shoreditch, London, opening in February 2008.
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