Description
The art world had no place for William Blake and this great strength to resist categorization cost him immediate fame, but keeps his work intriguing hundreds of years later.
In this video, we uncover how Blake shattered the boundaries between poetry, painting, and printmaking, and why the art world couldn't understand him.
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Rena Hoisington
Abby Whitlock
VIDEO BY:
Nerdwriter | Evan Puschak
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:26 The Patron Saint of Unclassifiable Artists
02:16 Illuminated Books
02:45 Royal Academy of Arts
03:41 Joshua Reynolds
04:07 Watercolorist and Engraver
05:16 Book of Job
09:14 Blake's Success as a Poet
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Bentley, G. E., Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. Yale University Press, 2001.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Edited and introduced by Randal Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1993.
Eaves, Morris, editor. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Eaves, Morris. William Blake’s Theory of Art. Princeton University Press, 1982.
Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton University Press, 1947.
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Ward, Aileen. “‘Sr Joshua and His Gang’: William Blake and the Royal Academy.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, 1989, pp. 75–95. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3817552.
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