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The Visionary Art of William Blake

Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination

Naomi Billingsley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2021
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-69402-7 (ISBN)

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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 of the Bible. But how did he come to equate Christianity with art? How did he use images and paint to express those radical and prophetic ideas about religion which he came in time to believe? And why did he conceive of Christ himself as an artist: in fact, as the artist, par excellence?

These are among the questions which Naomi Billingsley explores in her subtle and wide-ranging new study in art, religion and the history of ideas. Suggesting that Blake expresses through his representations of Jesus a truly distinctive theology of art, and offering detailed readings of Blake's paintings and biblical commentary, she argues that her subject thought of Christ as an artist-archetype. Blake's is thus a distinctively 'Romantic' vision of art in which both the artist and his saviour fundamentally change the way that the world is perceived.

In drawing upon contemporaneous religious writings and artistic representations of similar subjects, this book presents an historically grounded account of Blake’s oeuvre. It offers new interpretations of his individual works while also identifying textual and pictorial sources that previously have been overlooked. It will have strong interdisciplinary appeal: to intellectual historians; scholars and students of religion and literature; art historians; and all those interested in the vivid figural articulation of a uniquely English theological radicalism.

Naomi Bilingsley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute in the University of Manchester, UK. The holder of a PhD in Theology from the same university, she was previously Bishop Otter Scholar for Theology and the Arts in the Diocese of Chichester and remains a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Arts and the Sacred at King's College London. She contributed to the volume Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion (edited by Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen and Chloe Reddaway), published by I.B.Tauris in 2017.

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Quotations
Preface
Introduction
1. Regeneration: Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts (1795–7)
2. Inspiration: Illumination and Prophecy in the Biblical Temperas (1799–1800)
3. Facilitator: Ministry as Community-Building in the Biblical Watercolours (1800–6)
4. Eternal: Christ as Universal Human Form Divine (Works of 1805–c.1811)
5. Iconoclasm: Crucifixion as Self-Annihilation in Late Works (1804–27)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	45 black and white integrated illustrations and 20 colour illustrations in a 16 page plate section
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-567-69402-X / 056769402X
ISBN-13	978-0-567-69402-7 / 9780567694027
Zustand	Neuware