Books : William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
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by: William Blake
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780500282458
ISBN: 0500282455
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2001-04
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Sales Rank: 24193
Studio: Thames & Hudson
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In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books such as Jerusalem, America, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in Blake's own medium, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colors. Tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction, and liberation. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now, for the first time, the plates from the William Blake Trust's Collected Edition have been brought together in a single volume, with transcripts of the texts and an introduction by the noted scholar David Bindman. A major retrospective exhibition of Blake's work can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (March-June 2001). 400 color illustrations.
Includes:
Jerusalem
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
All Religions are One
There is No Natural Religion
The Book of Thel
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
America a Prophecy
Europe a Prophecy
The Song of Los
Milton a Poem
The Ghost of Abel
On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil
Laocoon
The First Book of Urizen
The Book of Ahania
The Book of Los
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Blake's Illuminated Works
I'm currently working on a graduate thesis on Blake, so it was with great eagerness that I hunted down this Illuminated Works compilation. I love Blake's poetry and it's hard to say anything bad about it, and I thought that if I could see the poems in the way Blake meant for them to be seen I would gain some sort of deeper insight into his words. However, as I eagerly opened this volume I was greatly disappointed. Certainly, the color of the images is breathtaking and the artistic detail put into ... Read More
Rating:  - To Create a Little Flower is the Labour of Ages
Valuable things are not easy; easy things are not valuable. I don't know if that's a quotation from the Tao-Te Ching, but it ought to be. William Blake's longer poems, the so-called Prophetic Books, are legendary in their difficulty. Each of the two great epics, "Milton" and "Jerusalem", is a world in itself, taking years or decades to explore. Everyone who has made the effort considers it time well spent.
Blake wasn't shy about the importance of his own work. In a letter he described ... Read More
Rating: - Truly wonderful in scale
I'm so glad I bought this; although it's expensive and hard to come by, I am pleased to finally have a copy of Blake's complete pictorial works. Of course I also bought a copy of his complete written works. If you are a lover of Blake's work and strive to understand him fully, this is a must-have.
Rating: - To improve your design and creative capabilities
William Blake - a genius before his time - created powerful words and images. Reading his works, and studying his pictures, will have a positive effect on your ability to design and communicate. Since purchasing this book, I've found increased attention to details, ways to eliminate clutter, a better ability to write succinctly and creative ways of looking at problems. I recommend this book for all readers wishing to improve their communication, design and creative skills. You won't be disappointed.
Rating:  - Pictures of his work are too small and only of his books.
Where is a good book on Blake that has color large reproductions of his actual paintings and not just his illuminated books?? Sigh. I love Blake, but am not happy with this book so I returned it.
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