Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry

Paperback

Price:
$60.00/拢50.00
ISBN:
Published:
Jan 29, 2019
1978
Pages:
312
Size:
7.5 x 9.25 in.

Can poem and picture collaborate successfully in a composite art of text and design? Or does one art inevitably dominate the other? W.J.T. Mitchell maintains that Blake’s illuminated poems are an exception to Suzanne Langer’s claim that 鈥渢here are no happy marriages in art鈥攐nly successful rape.鈥 Drawing on over one hundred reproductions of Blake’s pictures, this book shows that neither the graphic nor the poetic aspect of his composite art consistently predominates: their relationship is more like an energetic rivalry, a dialogue between vigorously independent modes of expression.
W.J.T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art and Design at the University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry.

Originally published in 1978.

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