William Blake: A Literary Life

John Beer
Much recent work on Blake has been devoted to examination of the techniques of his visual art, especially those in which he believed himself innovative. Readers with an interest in this side of his work will find it profitable to turn to recent works such as Michael Phillips’s William Blake: The Creation of the Songs, Joseph Viscomi’s Blake and the Art of the Book and Peter Ackroyd’s Blake, and (especially for the purposes of form and iconography) to consider the work of scholars such as Anne Mellor and W. J. T. Mitchell. They should also, if possible, visit the room at Tate Britain devoted to him, where a generous collection of his work is accompanied by explanations of his use of materials and related exhibits. My chief concern here is with Blake’s literary life – which is of course by no means irrelevant to his visual designs, since his art nearly always involved, whether explicitly or not, a verbal text of some kind. He was above all a literary artist; in other words, which helps to explain why historians of art sometimes find it difficult to fit him into categories that are based on the evolution of changing designs and techniques.

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد