Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000221963/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 25 of
25
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "William Blake thought that John Milton had been betrayed by both his commentators and his illustrators, and he set out to recover Milton's vision, particularly in Paradise Lost, from the misguided academic and Augustan misinterpretation to which it had been subjected. The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton is the first detailed. analysis of all of Blake's illustrations for Milton's poetry. Blake explicitly believed he was correcting errors that Milton wanted corrected, and he felt that his illustration was interpretive criticism in its highest sense, a re-vision that would broadcast Milton's revolutionary ethic afresh. Stephen C. Behrendt blends a close reading of Blake and Milton with meticulous and provocative examination of the illustrations of Blake, his predecessors, and his contemporaries. The focus on visual art as criticism establishes the book as a major essay on the interaction of the arts within and across cultural periods. Fifty-four black-and-white illustrations document that radical, Romantic assault by Blake on tradition in the name of tradition. The highlight of the book is Blake's two sets of Paradise Lost illustrations, reproduced here in twenty-four color plates - Blake's final statements on Paradise Lost and the culmination of his aesthetic and critical development. This beautiful book presents a wealth of illustration previously scattered or inaccessible. It will be of major interest to students of Blake, Milton, Romanticism, art history, and the history of ideas. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog contributor b241983.
- catalog created "c1983.".
- catalog date "1983".
- catalog date "c1983.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1983.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [205]-207.".
- catalog description "Blake's estimate of Milton as man and artist -- The theme of choice -- Blake's reading of Paradise lost -- The tradition of Paradise lost illustration -- Blake's Paradise lost illustrations.".
- catalog description "William Blake thought that John Milton had been betrayed by both his commentators and his illustrators, and he set out to recover Milton's vision, particularly in Paradise Lost, from the misguided academic and Augustan misinterpretation to which it had been subjected. The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton is the first detailed. analysis of all of Blake's illustrations for Milton's poetry. Blake explicitly believed he was correcting errors that Milton wanted corrected, and he felt that his illustration was interpretive criticism in its highest sense, a re-vision that would broadcast Milton's revolutionary ethic afresh. Stephen C. Behrendt blends a close reading of Blake and Milton with meticulous and provocative examination of the illustrations of Blake, his predecessors, and his contemporaries. The focus on visual art as criticism establishes the book as a major essay on the interaction of the arts within and across cultural periods. Fifty-four black-and-white illustrations document that radical, Romantic assault by Blake on tradition in the name of tradition. The highlight of the book is Blake's two sets of Paradise Lost illustrations, reproduced here in twenty-four color plates - Blake's final statements on Paradise Lost and the culmination of his aesthetic and critical development. This beautiful book presents a wealth of illustration previously scattered or inaccessible. It will be of major interest to students of Blake, Milton, Romanticism, art history, and the history of ideas. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 211 p., [27] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0803211694".
- catalog issued "1983".
- catalog issued "c1983.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog subject "Blake, William, 1757-1827.".
- catalog subject "Fall of man in art.".
- catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674 Illustrations.".
- catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost Illustrations.".
- catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.".
- catalog subject "PR3562 .B38 1983".
- catalog tableOfContents "Blake's estimate of Milton as man and artist -- The theme of choice -- Blake's reading of Paradise lost -- The tradition of Paradise lost illustration -- Blake's Paradise lost illustrations.".
- catalog title "The moment of explosion : Blake and the illustration of Milton / Stephen C. Behrendt.".
- catalog type "Illustrations. fast".
- catalog type "text".