William Blake: Apprentice and Master

Phillips, Michael

ISBN 10: 1854442880 / ISBN 13: 9781854442888

Published by Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2014

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Large 4to paperback in illustrated wraps. 272 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Includes bibliography, notes and references, concordances, and index. Condition: Good-. Wraps rubbed with edgewear. Front cover has a pronounced crease at the upper fore-corner and light ripple near the fore-edge. Spine with handling creases to laminate but no splits. Rear cover shows a patch of surface loss at the lower outer corner where a sticker was removed and several abrasions. Corners bumped. Text block slightly splayed at the fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked; binding sound. ---. Exhibition catalogue for William Blake: Apprentice and Master at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 4 December 2014 to 1 March 2015. Curated and authored by Michael Phillips with additional essays in Part Three by Martin Butlin and Colin Harrison. The catalogue traces Blakeā s formation and practice from his training as an engraver and studies at the Royal Academy to his innovations in relief-etching and illuminated printing, with sections on Songs of Innocence and of Experience, the large color prints of 1795, the Lambeth period at 13 Hercules Buildings, and late projects including the Illustrations to Dante. Richly illustrated and designed as a comprehensive reference to Blakeā s methods, sources, and influence on the Ancients (Samuel Palmer, Edward Calvert, George Richmond). First edition, 2014, as issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: William Blake: Apprentice and Master
• Publisher: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854442880
• ISBN 13: 9781854442888
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good-

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Synopsis

A major exhibition catalog on the work of William Blake (1757-1827), printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet of the prophetic books. The catalog explores the influence on Blake of the master artist-printmakers at the beginnings of the Renaissance, and the inspiration he brought to the young artist-printmakers who gathered around him in the last years of his life, including Samuel Palmer, George Richmond and Edward Calvert.

About the Author

Michael Phillips is currently writing a biography of William Blake in Lambeth during the anti-Jacobin Terror in Britain, entitled Blake and the Terror. His edition in facsimile of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was published by the Bodleian Library and the University of Chicago Press in 2011. He was guest curator of the William Blake Exhibition that opened in Paris at the Petit Palais from 1 April to 28 June 2009 and editor of the catalogue. He was also guest curator of the major Blake exhibition at Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000-2001, and is currently guest curator of the Blake exhibition opening in December 2014 in the new galleries of the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, William Blake, Apprentice & Master, where Blake's printmaking studio at No. 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, will be recreated.