The visionary art of William Blake : Christianity, romanticism and the pictorial imagination /: Christianity, romanticism and the pictorial imagination. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Naomi Billingsley.
• Authors: Billingsley, Naomi
• Contents: Front Cover; Author Biography; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Notes on Quotations; Preface; Introduction; Blakeanisms; Blake's Theory of Art and Romantic Aesthetics; Religious Art in Blake's Time; Blake's Work as an Artist; Five Themes in Blake's Religious Aesthetic; 1. Regeneration: Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts (1795-7); Blake's Night Thoughts; Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts; Conclusion; 2. Inspiration: Illumination and Prophecy in the Biblical Temperas (1799-1800); The Butts Biblical Temperas The Nativity Narratives in Blake's OeuvreThe Infancy of Christ in the Biblical Temperas; Conclusion; 3. Facilitator: Ministry as Community-Building in the Biblical Watercolours (1800-6); The Butts Biblical Watercolours; Conclusion; 4. Eternal: Christ as Universal Human Form Divine (Works of 1805-c.1811); Christ in Cosmic History in Paradise Lost; Emblems of Judgement; Icons of Divine Humanity; An Allegory of the Spiritual Condition of Man; Conclusion; 5. Iconoclasm: Crucifixion as Self-Annihilation in Late Works (1804-27); The Crucifixion in Art; The Crucifixion in Blake's Oeuvre Jerusalem 76 and Michael Foretells the CrucifixionEnvisioning the Crucifixion in Bunyan and Dante; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 700.92; Christianity and art; Christianity and art; Religion; Christliche Kunst; Kunst; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation; Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838609658; 1838609652
• Related ISBNs: 9781784539832; 178453983X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-238) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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