Description
An authoritative take a look at William Blake’s lifestyles and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmaker
William Blake (1757–1827) created one of the crucial so much iconic pictures within the historical past of artwork. He used to be a countercultural prophet whose private struggles, technical inventions, and revelatory imaginative and prescient have impressed generations of artists. This marvelously illustrated e-book explores the biographical, creative, and political contexts that formed Blake’s paintings, and demonstrates why he used to be a singularly proficient visible artist with renewed relevance for us as of late.
The e-book explores Blake’s courting with the artwork global of his time and gives new views on his craft as a printmaker, poet, watercolorist, and painter. It is smart of the profound historic forces with which he contended right through his lifetime, from revolutions in The us and France to the dehumanizing results of industrialization. Readers acquire incomparable insights into Blake’s want for reputation and business luck, his position as social critic, his visionary enjoy of London, his hatred of empire, and the sour disappointments that drove him to retire from the sector in his ultimate years. What emerges is a luminous portrait of a sophisticated and uncompromising artist who used to be without delay a heretic, mystic, saint, and cynic.
With an afterword via Alan Moore, this good-looking quantity options a few of the so much chic and exhilarating pictures Blake ever produced. It brings in combination watercolors, art work, and prints, and attracts from such illuminated masterpieces as Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Europe a Prophecy, and apocalyptic works similar to Milton and Jerusalem.
Published in affiliation with Tate
Exhibition Schedule
Tate Britain, London
September 11, 2019–February 2, 2020
