"William Blake - Visionary" by Edina Adam

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William Blake - Visionary Edina Adam, Julian Brooks

Series:
BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER
Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
24 Jul 2020
ISBN:
9781606066423
Imprint:
Getty Publications
Dimensions:
160 pages: 283 x 237 x 21mm

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A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary British artist William Blake Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique vision, William Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most striking and distinctive imagery in art, often combining his poetry and visual images on the page through innovative graphic techniques. He has proven an enduring inspiration to artists, musicians, poets, and performers worldwide and a fascinating enigma to generations of admirers. Featuring over 130 color images, this catalogue brings together many of Blake's most iconic works. Organized by theme, it explores Blake's work as a professional printmaker, his roles as both painter-illustrator and poet-painter, his relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists that preceded him, and his legacy in the United States. It also examines his visionary prophetic books, including all eighteen plates of America a Prophecy.

A specialist in works on paper, Edina Adam is assistant curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.|Julian Brooks is senior curator and head of the Department of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the author of many books, most recently The Lure of Italy: Artists' Views (Getty Publications, 2017) and Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (Getty Publications, 2015).|Matthew Hargraves is chief curator of art collections and head of collection information and access at the Yale Center for British Art.

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