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Blake and the catalog?
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:58:16 -0500
From: Eve Delain-Belcher
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I am looking for illustrations of Blake's work by other artists for a
current project. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please, let me
know.
Eve Delain-Belcher
Southwest Texas State University
English
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 20:00:28 -0500
From: tomdill@wc.stephens.edu (TOM DILLINGHAM)
To: blake@albion.com
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An artist named Robert Shetterly has done a series of interpretations
of the Proverbs of Hell from MHH. These were published as greeting
cards by Borealis Press of Ellsworth, Maine 04605 (phone #207
667-3700). I have never investigated whether these might have
been gathered as a book, but I rather hope so. They are surrealistic
and sometimes unpleasant, but interesting..
I vaguely remember the possibility that Samuel Palmer might have
attempted some drawings or paintings keyed to his revered Blake, but
that may be wrong; I know he did some Virgil illustrations, as did
Blake.
I also very vaguely remember seeing a set of photographs linked with
some of the Songs, but am not at all sure who the photographer was
or where one might start to look for the works.
The House of Blake in London has had at least one (I think two)
exhibitions of works by various artists produced in response to
Blakean themes--one set was of representations of male and female
genitalia in response to "The Genitals Beauty" but there were
others.
The Summer 1997 issue of _Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly_ features
"The Blake Project" by artist Lorenz Becher and various back issues
would probably include notices of other artistic efforts. George
Coates used computer modified images from Blake as part of his
virtual reality setting for his theatrical production. _20/20 Blake_
(reviewed in the same 1997 issue of _Blake_--I believe the website
which includes some of Coates's images is still up and can be linked
through some of the other Blake websites or searched with Coates's
name).
And--while it may be outside the range of your project, Nancy Willard's
_A Visit to William Blake's Inn_ is published with illustrations by
Alice and Martin Provensen--both the poems and the illustrations at
least allude to Blake.
One of the great artistic celebrations of Blake is, of course,
Gully Jimson's series of murals--especially the "feet" magnum opus--
available most powerfully in the words of Joyce Cary's _Horse's Mouth_
and with less success in the wonderful film version starring
Alec Guinness.
Hope these help.
Tom Dillingham
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:24:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Vaughan
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One suggestion would be to go to Bentley's Blake Books and see what he
lists and annotates.
Frank Vaughan
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Eve Delain-Belcher wrote:
> I am looking for illustrations of Blake's work by other artists for a
> current project. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please, let me
> know.
>
> Eve Delain-Belcher
> Southwest Texas State University
> English
>
>
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:50:30 +0100
From: timli@controls.eurotherm.co.uk (Tim Linnell)
To: blake@albion.com
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>I vaguely remember the possibility that Samuel Palmer might have
>attempted some drawings or paintings keyed to his revered Blake, but
>that may be wrong; I know he did some Virgil illustrations, as did
>Blake.
Palmer is generally held to have been very much influenced by Blake's
woodcuts for the Eclogues of Virgil during his Shoreham period, resulting in
fabulous work of an intense and almost hallucinatory quality, but quite
removed from the character of Blake's work. Calvert came closer, and in many
ways surpassed Blake in this particular area - anyone who hasn't seen
Calvert's work should take a look at
http://www.art-at-home.com/art@home/CALVERT/calvert.htm where there is a
fine collection of scans of his wood cuts. These are to my mind unsurpassed
and unsurpassable.
However there is little evidence of a wider influence, and indeed it is
highly unlikely that Palmer truly understood Blake or his work - his
undoubted reverence sprang principally from the fact that Blake happened to
fit Palmer's romantic ideal of an ancient prophet. Blake's Eclogue cuts are
certainly not typical of his wider work in any way, but their magical
quality and simple, almost rustic, style of execution (which was not least
caused by Blake's lack of skill in this medium) combined to set Palmer's
youthful imagination aflame.
Palmer's etchings for Virgil (whose work he also translated), although
marvellous, have very much more to do with Palmer's later, very Victorian,
work than with Blake. I think that there are some examples at the site
previously mentioned with respect to Calvert. The only known Palmer woodcut
(from the Shoreham period - 'Harvest under a Crescent Moon') - although
superficially very similar to Blake's Eclogues, totally lacks their mystery
and poetic quality.
There is an interesting painting by Bo Lindberg relating to Blake and
Palmer: 'Samuel Palmer climbing the stairs to the Blakes' flat in Fountain
Court, Strand', watercolour, 1973, Gerald E. Bentley Jr Collection. It's
reproduced in the excellent 'Essays on the Blake followers', published by
the Huntington Library, which also discusses Palmer's relationship with
Blake, amongst other things - it is a book well worth reading, and as I
recall quite a bargain.
Best regards
Tim Linnell
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:17:02 -0500
From: Eve Delain-Belcher
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Thanks, Frank, I'll check it out.
Eve
Frank Vaughan wrote:
> One suggestion would be to go to Bentley's Blake Books and see what he
> lists and annotates.
> Frank Vaughan
>
> On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Eve Delain-Belcher wrote:
>
> > I am looking for illustrations of Blake's work by other artists for a
> > current project. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please, let me
> > know.
> >
> > Eve Delain-Belcher
> > Southwest Texas State University
> > English
> >
> >
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:46:49 -0500
From: tomdill@wc.stephens.edu (TOM DILLINGHAM)
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: pictures, paintings, etc.
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Thanks to Tim Linnell for the authoritative expansion of my brief
comment on Palmer. All my Palmer books were at the office when I
was writing from home, so the V&A volume that features his Virgil
illustrations was not handy. I would agree that Palmer may well not
have equalled his reverence with a degree of understanding of Blake.
In fact, Palmer's art has always seemed to me far more consistent
with the vision of John Clare than with Blake's. And certainly
Calvert's work should be of interest to any Blakean, so thanks also
for the site reference.
Tom Dillingham
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:39:49 EDT
From: ReyahnKing@aol.com
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Hello -
Given the current talk about Blake and his inspiration, you all may be
interested to know that I am about to open a small exhibition I have curated
at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK) called William Blake and his Circle.
It features six watercolours from the Divine Comedy illustrations, Robinson
Crusoe finding the footprint, engravings including Calvert's impressions of
Blake's blocks for the Illustrations to Thornton's pastorals of Virgil. The
exhibition enables comparisons with Fuseli, Palmer, Calvert, Richmond etc.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:33:40 -0500
From: Eve Delain-Belcher
To: blake@albion.com
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ReyahnKing@aol.com wrote:
> Hello -
> Given the current talk about Blake and his inspiration, you all may be
> interested to know that I am about to open a small exhibition I have curated
> at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK) called William Blake and his Circle.
> It features six watercolours from the Divine Comedy illustrations, Robinson
> Crusoe finding the footprint, engravings including Calvert's impressions of
> Blake's blocks for the Illustrations to Thornton's pastorals of Virgil. The
> exhibition enables comparisons with Fuseli, Palmer, Calvert, Richmond etc.
Oh that I could cross the Atlantic!
Eve Delain-Belcher
Southwest Texas State University
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:15:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: jmichael@sewanee.edu (J. Michael)
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I'm sure someone has discussed, in print, Blake's use of the epic catalog
(those long lists of names, usually of places, in _Jerusalem_). In fact, I
think I remember reading such a discussion, but at the moment I can't find
it, although I've found plenty of discussions of the Adamic act of naming.
I'm thinking of something more Homeric here: the epic roll-call.
I'll be grateful for any leads.
Jennifer Michael
jmichael@sewanee.edu
"Dip him in the river who loves water." --William Blake
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