THE GATES OF PARADISE
- ISBN-10
- 802723672X
- ISBN-13
- 9788027236725
- Series
- The Gates of Paradise
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 45
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-12-06
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Author
- William Blake
Description
First published in a limited run in 1793 Blake later changed the title to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verse, publishing this version in 1818.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 ("What are these! Alas! the Female Martyr, Is She also the Divine Image?"), reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Time's Ocean. 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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Other editions
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- 2007-08-02
- 184 pages
- Paperback
- Yale University Press
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- 2001-02-01
- 689 pages
- Paperback
- Stoddart Pub
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