For Children: The Gates of Paradise (eBook)

Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake

William Blake (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
45 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406644309-2 (EAN)

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This carefully crafted ebook: "For Children: The Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. First published in a limited run in 1793. He later changed the title to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verse, publishing this version in 1818.The seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and fire), hatching as a child from the "mundane shell," encountering women ("What are these! Alas! the Female Martyr, Is She also the Divine Image?"), reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Time's Ocean. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2013
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: 18th-century art • British Poet • Children's literature • Dream • Emblematic illustrations • Humanity • illuminated manuscript • Life and Death • Love • Lucifer • man's journey • "mundane shell" • romantic era • Satan • symbolic drawings • visionary mystic