William Blake's universe / edited by David Bindman and Esther Chadwick.
Published / Created:
London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2024.
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at The Fitzwilliam Museum, 20 February - 19 May, 2024 and Hamburger Kunsthalle, 14 June - 8 September 2024.
Contents:
Introduction: Blake, Runge and visionary art in Europe c.1800 / Esther Chadwick -- Blake, time and the present moment / Sarah Haggarty -- Catalogue. Blake and his artist contemporaries -- The past: antiquity and the gothic -- Catalogue. Learning from the past ; John Flaxman ; Blake and Fuseli ; Blake and Dante ; Classics versus gothic -- The present: Europe in flames -- Blake's continental prophecies: apocalypse and revolution / David Bindman -- Catalogue. 'Mind forg'd manacles': slavery and freedom ; French Revolution and apocalypse ; The world as prison ; Images of redemption -- The future: spiritual renewal -- Catalogue. Blake's new religious style ; Jacob Böhme -- 'Michael Angelo could not have done better': Dionysus Andreas Freher and the visual transmission of German mysticism in eighteenth-century England / Cecilia Muratori -- Henry Crabb Robinson, William Blake and Anglo-German cultural relations / James Vigus -- Catalogue. Philipp Otoo Runge: Times of Day -- Runge's time / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Catalogue. Romantic nationalism -- Romantic nationalism in Germany and Britain / William Vaughan.