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The visionary art of William Blake : Christianity, romanticism and the pictorial imagination /

"William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Billingsley, Naomi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Colección:Library of modern religion ; 57.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Author Biography; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Notes on Quotations; Preface; Introduction; Blakeanisms; Blake's Theory of Art and Romantic Aesthetics; Religious Art in Blake's Time; Blake's Work as an Artist; Five Themes in Blake's Religious Aesthetic; 1. Regeneration: Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts (1795-7); Blake's Night Thoughts; Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts; Conclusion; 2. Inspiration: Illumination and Prophecy in the Biblical Temperas (1799-1800); The Butts Biblical Temperas
  • The Nativity Narratives in Blake's OeuvreThe Infancy of Christ in the Biblical Temperas; Conclusion; 3. Facilitator: Ministry as Community-Building in the Biblical Watercolours (1800-6); The Butts Biblical Watercolours; Conclusion; 4. Eternal: Christ as Universal Human Form Divine (Works of 1805-c.1811); Christ in Cosmic History in Paradise Lost; Emblems of Judgement; Icons of Divine Humanity; An Allegory of the Spiritual Condition of Man; Conclusion; 5. Iconoclasm: Crucifixion as Self-Annihilation in Late Works (1804-27); The Crucifixion in Art; The Crucifixion in Blake's Oeuvre
  • Jerusalem 76 and Michael Foretells the CrucifixionEnvisioning the Crucifixion in Bunyan and Dante; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover