Blake in Our Time

Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, Jr.

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2010
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4151-8 (ISBN)

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Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work. Following in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history.

Karen Mulhallen is a professor in the Departments of English at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto and a professor in the Joint Graduate Program in Culture and Communications at Ryerson and York Universities.

Introduction: Blake in Our Time - Minute Particulars by Karen Mulhallen (University of Toronto/Ryerson University/York University)
PART 1: "Every Minute Particular is Holy": Materials

Collecting Blake by Robert N. Essick (University of California, Riverside)

Two Fake Blakes Revisited; One Dew-Smith Revealed by Joseph Viscomi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Blake's Painting Materials, Technical Art History, and the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr by Joyce H. Townsend and Bronwyn A. Ormsby (Tate Gallery, London)

PART 2: "For Friendship's Sake": Friends and Patrons

New Light on the Mathews: Flaxman and Blake's Early Gothicism by David Bindman (University College London)

"A Ladys Book": Blake's Engravings for Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper by Mark Crosby (Queen's University, Belfast)

More on Blake's (and Bentley's) 'White Collar Maecenus': Thomas Butts, His Wife's Family of Artisans, and the Methodist Withams of St Bartholomew the Great by Mary Lynn Johnson (University of Iowa)

"Went to see Blake - also to Surgeons college": Blake and George Cumberland's Pocketbooks by Angus Whitehead (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

George Richmond, Blake's True Heir? by Martin Butlin (Tate Gallery, London

PART 3: "What I Both See and Hear": Architecture and Industry

William Blake and Chichester by Morton D. Paley (University of California, Berkeley)

William Blake and the Straw Paper Manufactory at Millbank by Keri Davies (The Blake Society)

Epilogue: A Memorable Fancy by Jerome McGann (University of Virginia)

Appendix: William Blake in Toronto: The Bentley Collection at Victoria University Library by Robert Brandeis (Victoria University in the University of Toronto)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2010
Zusatzinfo	30 halftones; 1 table
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 236 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4426-4151-7 / 1442641517
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-4151-8 / 9781442641518
Zustand	Neuware