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The Art World Couldn't Understand William Blake

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Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art Production Studio. For more National Gallery of Art videos: https://www.youtube.com/@UC416BswuE2ItX23GySxZcRQ SOURCES Ackroyd, Peter. Blake. Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Becker, Howard S. Art Worlds. University of California Press, 1982. Bentley, G. E., Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. Yale University Press, 2001. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Edited and introduced by Randal Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1993. Eaves, Morris, editor. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Eaves, Morris. William Blake’s Theory of Art. Princeton University Press, 1982. Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton University Press, 1947. Frye, Northrop. “Poetry and Design in William Blake.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 10, no. 1, 1951, pp. 35–42. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/426786. Higgs, John. William Blake vs the World. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021. Mitchell, W. J. T. Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1978. Myrone, Martin. “Blake’s Unruly Art History: The Case of the 1809 Exhibition.” Interfaces: Image-Texte-Langage, no. 30, 2010, pp. 7–20. https://doi.org/10.3406/inter.2010.1368. Rowland, Christopher. Blake and the Bible. Yale University Press, 2011. Solkin, David H., editor. Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780–1836. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2001. Ward, Aileen. “‘Sr Joshua and His Gang’: William Blake and the Royal Academy.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, 1989, pp. 75–95. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3817552. Will, Frederic. “Blake’s Quarrel with Reynolds.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 15, no. 3, 1957, pp. 340–49. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/427298. MUSIC (via Epidemic Sound) Computer Wiz - Marten Moses The Orchard - Jakob Ahlbom The Art of Being - Rachel Sandy
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