Lost heaven. Returned Paradise
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On November 28, 2017, the 260th anniversary of the birth of William Blake - the poet, the artist, the visionary, the myth -making, the thinker. The style of the works of art Blake cannot be associated with a certain direction in art. Its amazing compositions were based on the principle of the leadership of the "creative imagination", and if you take all its works together, they are something grandiose, bewitching and majestic. William Blake illustrated not only his works. So, in 1822, he created a cycle of magnificent watercolor works for the poems of John Milton "Lost Paradise" (1657) and The Returned Paradise (1671) Milton, whom the artist compared with the ancient bard, seeing the past, present and future, was especially close to Blake with his monumentality and religious pathos. The material, on which Milton was primarily based, composing the “lost paradise”, were the first three chapters of the “Book of Genesis”. Working on the text of the epic, introducing episodes into it, which are not in the Old Testament, the poet proposed a completely new, original reading of the biblical plot. This book immediately after the publication caused many disputes and discussions that continue so far. The Returned Paradise, written much later, was based on the New Testament and is the answer to the “lost paradise”.
In the book "William Blake", we suggest you make your own opinion about the artist Blake, the poet Milton and their creative union, which happened with a gap of one and a half hundred years ... hide
In the book "William Blake", we suggest you make your own opinion about the artist Blake, the poet Milton and their creative union, which happened with a gap of one and a half hundred years ... hide
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Children's Book
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Completed
Series:
Series: Book Illustrations
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:0+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4224-1421-5
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