William Blake: The Creation of the Songs, from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing - Brossura

Phillips, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691057214 ISBN 13: 9780691057217

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

The only manuscripts to survive that lead to the production of one of William Blake's published illuminated books are those of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, his most accessible and best-loved work. Here, one of the world's foremost authorities on Blake's manuscripts and illuminated printing details the evolution of this masterwork and its entire production process.

In the manuscript known as An Island in the Moon are found the beginnings of Songs of Innocence and in the Manuscript Notebook, a treasure of the British Library, over fifty poems in draft leading to Songs of Experience. All of the pages in manuscript of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are reproduced in color facsimile, including many of the drawings used in illustration, granting the reader a singular view of the artist's mind at work. Michael Phillips details the stages of Blake's composition and his remarkable technique of relief etching text and design on a single copperplate. For the first time, he demonstrates Blake's development of selective color printing of the design in opaque pigments over the original monochrome impression. Used in producing the first copies of Songs of Experience, this second step accounts for their dramatic contrast with the first issues of Songs of Innocence, which were hand-colored in transparent watercolors.

Blake united Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in 1794 and produced copies in greater numbers than any other work until his death. In the past, the last copies Blake made have been reproduced because of their elaborate and expensive decoration. Phillips concentrates upon the first copies, revealing the original conception of the work. An impressive selection of these plates are reproduced for the first time.

This beautifully illustrated book is a major contribution to Blake studies. It will delight Blake enthusiasts and all who are fascinated by the extraordinary processes of creation and reproduction it describes.

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L'autore:

Michael Phillips, Reader at the University of York, where he teaches a graduate course on Blake at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, is guest curator of the major Blake Exhibition opening at the Tate, London, in November 2000. He has lectured on Blake in Britain, France and America, and is currently writing a biography of Blake in the early 1790s, during the reactionary anti-Jacobin Terror in Britain.

Product Description:

In 4, cm. 23,5 x 30, pp. 304, con moltissime illustrazioni per lo piu' a colori a piena pagina. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Il volume e' stato realizzato in occasione della mostra presentata alla Tate Britain, Londra 9 novembre 2000-11 febbraio 2001 e al Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 29 marzo- 24 giugno 2001. William Blake fu un poeta, pittore e incisore, questo studio riccamente illustrato incorpora piu' di duecento stampe, dipinti, disegni, saggi scritti e poemi di questo artista, accompagnati da saggi introduttivi su Blake the man, il suo ruolo negli sconvolgimenti politici e sociali della sua era, le sue innovative tecniche di stampa e la sua arte visionaria. Testo in inglese. In ottime condizioni.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0691057214
• ISBN 13: 9780691057217
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 180