William Blake Livres

" Qui dit romantisme dit art moderne, c'est-à-dire intimité, spiritualité, couleur, aspiration vers l'infini, exprimées par tous les moyens que contiennent les arts. " Ces mots de Baudelaire résument l'essence du grand mouvement artistique et littéraire qui s'épanouit au début du XIXè siècle. Le romantisme conquit tous les domaines de l'art et se répandit en Europe, avant de gagner le Nouveau Monde. Une nouvelle conception de l'art était née : contre les canons rigides du classicisme et l'enseignement des académies, les artistes romantiques revendiquèrent le droit de se laisser guider par leur sensibilité et leur imagination. Cet ouvrage, superbement illustré de plus de 450 reproductions, offre un extraordinaire panorama sur ce mouvement : du mythe de Napoléon à la nostalgie du moyen Age, des images du sacré à la mode de l'orientalisme, de l'observation du paysage à l'évasion dans l'univers du rêve et du fantastique... Le parcours proposé débute avec le préromantisme, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, et s'achève vers 1860 avec l'éclosion du réalisme. À côté des représentants les plus illustres du mouvement, comme Delacroix ou Géricault, apparaissent des figures moins connues, mais qui apportèrent leur contribution à la diffusion du romantisme. A la fin de l'ouvrage, un tableau chronologique et les biographies des artistes apportent de précieux repères. Cet ouvrage de référence vous fera découvrir l'une des périodes les plus fascinantes de la culture européenne, qui ne manque pas d'influencer, aujourd'hui encore, notre histoire et notre vision du monde.

One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger', and 'The Blossom' and 'The Sick Rose' - to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated, intrigued and enchanted readers for generations.

This edition includes almost all Blake's substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.

In 1809 the little-known artist William Blake held an exhibition of his work in a private house in Soho in the west end of London. It was not a success. The only review in the press was extremely unfavourable and few of the public came. One of those who did was the poet Charles Lamb, who later described the catalogue that accompanied the show as 'mystical and full of vision'. It is this catalogue that this edition once more makes available. In it, the scale and range of Blake's ambition are made plain, along with his theories on painting, his unsparing critiques of other artists and some extraordinary insights into the working of his mind. Part commentary and part manifesto, it is as radical as it is eccentric; (he claims at one point to have been transported in a 'vision' back to the classical world). Fully illustrated in colour with reproductions of surviving works originally in the exhibition, the book includes an essay by Martin Myrone, a leading authority on Blake and British art of the period, making it an essential purchase for all of those wanting to know more about the life and work of this fascinating and enigmatic figure.

A visionary of eighteen-century English art, William Blake was largely unknown during his own lifetime and often rejected as a madman for claims of hearing voices and later having visions. Since his death, Blake has achieved enduring fame for his innovative and extraordinary work and is widely viewed as one of the most important of all English artists. Created between 1790 and 1793, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" is considered by many to be one of his most original and inspired books. Written largely in criticism of Emanuel Swedenborg's 1758 work "Heaven and Hell", which argued in favor of a strict moral structure and a clear distinction between good and evil, Blake instead viewed the world as unified where both the heaven of the physical world and the hell of desire and passion were all part of the same divine plan. Written in the form of imaginary Biblical prophecies, Blake created a world where contradictory impulses and emotions are all necessary parts of existence and where each person must embrace these paradoxical characteristics of human nature in order to progress in life. The result of Blake's vision is a dynamic and thought-provoking masterpiece from one of history's most eccentric and brilliant artists. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and reproduces one of the first set of plates in full color along with a complete transcription of the poem.

ZUM 250. GEBURTSTAG DES GROSSEN ENGLISCHEN DICHTERZwischen Feuer und FeuerEin Remake der in deutscher Sprache bislang umfangreichsten Werkausgabe William Blakes im Parallelsatz mit den englischen Originaltexten. »Jetzt hoffe ich, daß die musikalische Artikulation von Blakes Lyrik vom elektronisch illuminierten demokratischen Ohr der Rockpopmusikmassenmedien erhört wird und einen ewigen Lyrikstandard setzen wird.« Allen Ginsberg

This single volume contains all of Blake's illuminated books, reproduced from the best available originals. It is published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Tate Gallery in the autumn of 2000

By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox thinker, Blake was for years ignored or derided. Sustained by his belief in the artistic imagination, he drafted poetry, prose visions, and epigrams, and manufactured beautiful illustrated volumes of his lyrics and verse narratives. Towards the end of his life, Blake's unique and irreducible talent was recognized by a group of younger artists, who rescued much of his achievement from oblivion.