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Visions of Blake

William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930

Av Colin Trodd

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How did William Blake achieve classic status? What aspects of his art and personality attracted and repelled critics? How was the story of his afterlife coloured by debates and developments in the British art world? Moving between visual and literary analysis, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930 considers the ways in which different audiences and communities dealt with the issue of describing and evaluating Blake’s images and designs. It ranges widely from the writings of Gilchrist, the Rossetti brothers, Ruskin, Swinburne, Symons, Yeats, Joyce, Chesterton and Fry, through to works by Ford Madox Brown, G. F. Watts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Crane, C. R. Ashbee, Aubrey Beardsley, E. J. Ellis and J. T. Nettleship. Each chapter of this groundbreaking study deals with its own topic, but between them they build up a multifaceted picture of how a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian commentators connected Blake’s interest in pictorial composition, visual attention and ideas of cultural authority with broader contemporary matters and concerns. Visions of Blake is intended for all students and academics interested in Blake, Romanticism, Victorian culture, cultural politics and modern art.
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Colin Trodd is Lecturer, School of Arts, Cultures and Histories, University of Manchester. Selected previous publications: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (Ashgate, 1999: joint editor) Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (MUP, 2000: joint editor) Governing Cultures (Ashgate, 2001: joint editor) Representations of G.F. Watts (Ashgate, 2004: joint editor) Blake’s Shadow (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008: main author) Professional accomplishments and any other biographical information which might be relevant to the promotion of the book: Curator of Blake’s Shadow, an exhibition of reactions to the work of Blake by Victorian and modern British artists (Whitworth Art Gallery, Jan–April 2008; National University, South Korea, Dec. 2008-April 2009). Published on Blake (Blake Modernity and Popular Culture, S. Clark and J. Whittaker eds., Palgrave, 2007) and delivered papers at Blake Conferences. Received an award from the AHRC to undertake research related to the book.

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'In an extensive, indeed thoroughly exhaustive, study, Colin Trodd returns proper attention to what was the primary sphere of Blake’s reputation until the early years of the twentieth century, as a visual artist whose frequently disturbing inspiration was an important contributing factor to the development of the arts in Britain. Much more than a simple historical survey, Trodd’s book presents an extremely sophisticated account of what he terms ‘Blakeland’, which is sensitive to the shifting nuances of Blake’s reception from one decade to the next … Throughout, Trodd’s scholarship is exemplary and his criticism is extremely carefully argued.'Visual Culture in Britain

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