- EAN13
- 9788074844201
- Éditeur
- e-artnow
- Date de publication
- 21/08/2013
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)
William Blake
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This carefully crafted ebook: "For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise
(Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is
formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Gates of Paradise, was first published in a limited run in 1793. In 1818
W. Blake changed the title to "For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise", and
added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verses. The
seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man
from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and
fire), hatching as a child from the "mundane shell," encountering women,
reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Time's Ocean.
After several other episodes he finally arrives at the death's door with Job's
words: "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister." There a
female figure is "Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife, And Weeping over the
Web of Life."
William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and
engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the
supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-
century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a
seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the
Romantic Age.
(Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is
formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Gates of Paradise, was first published in a limited run in 1793. In 1818
W. Blake changed the title to "For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise", and
added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verses. The
seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man
from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and
fire), hatching as a child from the "mundane shell," encountering women,
reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Time's Ocean.
After several other episodes he finally arrives at the death's door with Job's
words: "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister." There a
female figure is "Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife, And Weeping over the
Web of Life."
William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and
engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the
supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-
century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a
seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the
Romantic Age.
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