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William Blake: Visionary Hardcover – August 4, 2020

by Edina Adam (Author), Julian Brooks (Author), Matthew Hargraves (Contributor)

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A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary British artist William Blake.

Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique vision, William Blake (1757–1827) created some of the most striking and distinctive imagery in art, often combining his poetry and visual images on the page through innovative graphic techniques. He has proven an enduring inspiration to artists, musicians, poets, and performers worldwide and a fascinating enigma to generations of admirers.

Featuring over 130 color images, this catalogue brings together many of Blake’s most iconic works. Organized by theme, it explores Blake’s work as a professional printmaker, his roles as both painter-illustrator and poet-painter, his relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists that preceded him, and his legacy in the United States. It also examines his visionary prophetic books, including all eighteen plates of America a Prophecy.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition coming soon to the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center.

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“The next best thing to an on-site tour of the exhibition and an armchair traveler's delight from cover to cover.”
—Midwest Book Review

“William Blake: Visionary is a good introduction to a unique figure in the history of art.”
-- Bondo Wyszpolski ― Easy Reader News Published On: 2020-12-10

“Lavishly illustrated. . . . Recommended.”
-- D. D. Schierenbeck ― Choice Published On: 2021-01-01

“Stunning catalogue. . . . This is bibliographic design at its best.” -- Luisa Calè ― Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Published On: 2021-07-01

“Excellent catalog.” -- Christopher Knight ― Los Angeles Times Published On: 2023-12-12

About the Author

A specialist in works on paper, Edina Adam is assistant curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Julian Brooks is senior curator and head of the Department of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the author of many books, most recently The Lure of Italy: Artists’ Views (Getty Publications, 2017) and Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (Getty Publications, 2015).

Matthew Hargraves is chief curator of art collections and head of collection information and access at the Yale Center for British Art.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ J. Paul Getty Museum; 1st edition (August 4, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1606066420
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1606066423
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.8 x 11 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #140,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #146 in Individual Artist Monographs
- #282 in Arts & Photography Criticism
- #542 in Art History (Books)

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Masterdel

Don’t Blake

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023

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This is a fabulous book full of Blake’s plates, drawings etc. The book through his illustrations goes in chronological order. You see and feel the thinking of the day as interpreted by Blake through his drawings and words. If you are a Blake fan. This is for you.

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C. Carlyle

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2023

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The book itself is of good quality, and the content is extraordinary.

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Beat

Must have if you’re a fan of Blake

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021

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AMAZING!! Super impressed

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Robrt

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2020

This, like pretty much every other Getty title, is an excellent study of a great subject. Blake is now known almost as much as a printer as he is a poet, and of course, the two cannot be separated in this work. This beautifully illustrated monograph covers the prints and printmaking itself, with an analysis of the context in his time and through the historical printing techniques he borrowed from. It may not be the best introduction to his art for people just looking for an overview, but it is of unmatched beauty.

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Pop Bop

Blake's Fearful Symmetry

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2020

The Getty Museum has mounted some fine exhibitions over the past few years, and the books that have been published to accompany and complement the exhibits have uniformly been first rate. I was, however, a bit reluctant to consider this one. All I knew about William Blake was that he wrote a poem that's a staple of middle grade anthologies, ("Tyger Tyger, burning bright..."), and he was considered nutzy in his time and pretty much ever since. The Getty's exhibit and this book establish why you should never get too comfortable with settled, secondhand opinions. It turns out that William Blake was most definitely nutzy, but in a fascinating, eccentric, transgressive, idiosyncratic, and entirely admirable fashion.

This book doesn't make any effort to "rehabilitate" Blake by explaining him away as simply misunderstood, or ahead of his time. Rather, we fully embrace his eccentricities and the difficulty he presents across the entire spectrum of his work. This book is almost a celebration of Blake as the inspired, weird and wonderful visionary. To draw a phrase from Timothy Potts' Foreword, the exhibit intent is to "present a more rounded picture of Blake", but not to diminish or dismiss his unique vision. Mission accomplished.

This book is nicely organized. It comprises three crisp and varied essays and a treasure trove of prints, drawings and paintings, including some major rarities. Having ended my formal Blake education at "Tyger Tyger..." and a few incomprehensible poems, I had no idea that Blake was such an accomplished printmaker, and much of the book's text is either taken up with his life and work in this field, or addresses the matter of how thoroughly Blake has been admired and appreciated in America. As to the generous collection of plates, (133 pieces, which take up the bulk of the book), that is divided into sections devoted to Printmaker, Painter-Illustrator, Painter-Poet, Visionary, and Mythmaker. I assume it was considered disrespectful to have a section captioned "Nutzy", but the "Visionary" and "Mythmaker" chapters come close enough. The plates in each section are introduced with a brief overview. (And it goes almost without saying that the actual production quality of the book is top drawer.)

So, while Blake isn't the first artist I would think of when mounting an exhibition, this turned out to be a nervy choice and a fine collaboration with the Tate in London and a wide range of private collectors and public collections. Again to borrow from Potts, "astonishing and captivating".

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

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Annarella

Well written and informative, highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2020

I love William Blake and this book made me learned a lot about him and his work.
Well written and informative, highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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James Harvey Lewis

Huge disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023

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The format of the book is large but the art is small. What you get is page after page that's about 60% border and 40% art. Why have such a large luxurious format if you don't present the art in a large luxurious manner? A detestable editorial misstep and the reason I'm returning the book.

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StaticGirl

Good

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2020

Very cool to see a bunch of Blake's work accompanied by snippets of biography and historical context. Wish I could go see the exhibit!

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