William Blake's Printed Paintings

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Methods, Origins, Meanings

By Joseph Viscomi

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This book delves into twelve of William Blake's most acclaimed works, his colour printed drawings or monoprints from 1795. Joseph Viscomi reveals Blake's unique technique, showing these pieces as autonomous paintings crucial to his artistic growth, rather than mere book illustrations. The richly illustrated text situates the works in their historical context, linking but not limiting them to Blake's writings.
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Ideal for readers with an interest in art history, William Blake's work, and those fascinated by artistic techniques and the cultural context of late 18th-century Britain.

An in-depth examination of William Blake’s glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints

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Among William Blake’s (1757–1827) most widely recognised and highly regarded works as an artist are twelve colour printed drawings, or monoprints, conceived and executed in 1795. William Blake's Printed Paintings investigates these masterworks, explaining Blake’s technique—one he essentially reinvented, unaware of 17th-century precursors—to show that these works were produced as paintings, and played a crucial role in Blake’s development as a painter.

Using material and historical analyses, Joseph Viscomi argues that the monoprints were created as autonomous paintings rather than as illustrations for Blake’s books with an intended viewing order. Enlivened with bountiful illustrations, the text approaches the works within the context of their time, not divorced from ideas expressed in Blake’s writings, but not illustrative of or determined by those writings.

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Laurent Bury, Cercles: "This volume is devoted to a set of twelve pictures created in 1795 and unanimously considered Blake’s highest achievement... Relying on material evidence and sensible deduction, Viscomi reconstructs the whole chronology of the twelve pictures."

The new standard account of how [Blake's] ‘printed paintings’ were produced and how the works should be interpreted… The implications of Viscomi’s scholarship will resonate for years to come.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913107208

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 May 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Illustration: 180 color + b-w illus.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Joseph Viscomi is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.