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The twelve large colour prints of William Blake: a study on techniques, materials and context
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to study in entirety the group of large colour prints which William Blake made between 1795 and 1805. The series of prints represents the single most important and complete development of Blake’s skill as an innovative printmaker. Although they include some of Blake’s best-known images, they have not been studied before in their entirety or from the point of view of analysing the techniques and methods Blake had used. My study will show how Blake executed these truly impressive prints in terms of materials, method and motives. The first half of the thesis deals with the materialistic aspects of Blake’s colour printing. In chapter one tracing the controversial two-pull discussion to the root, I will make clear the focus points as well as revealing the early tradition of experimental criticism on Blake’s colour printing method. Focusing on two important critics, W. Graham Robertson and Ruthven Todd, and the periods they lived, I attempt to reveal the role they played in a wider context. Also I show how the tradition of Blake’s art was inherited directly through the Ancients to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which leads to Robertson and Todd. In the second chapter I deal with the development of Blake’s colour printing experiments. It is obvious that the Twelve Large Colour Prints were produced as a result of Blake’s series of colour printing experiments, starting with monocolour simple prints, going through the illuminated books progressing with more colours and higher skills
William Blake and the visionary poetry of the law.
No full textPhDThis dissertation examines the meaning of law in Blake's work. I argue that Blake's poetry
intersects with contemporaneous challenges to the traditional model of the ancient constitution,
a debate which I present as a conflict between custom and code. Blake's support for the French
Revolution's overthrow of the customary systems of the ancien regime is countered by his
nervousness about the rights-based discourse advanced by leading radical intellectuals such as
Thomas Paine, a belief that the new systems which they proposed merely re-stated those which
they sought to replace within an even narrower compass.
Law is also a contested ground within radical political discourse of this period; although the
dominant proposals advocated the enshrinement of fundamental rights and the codification of
law, there was also a tendency towards a more enthusiastic radicalism These millenarian
groups, emerging from antinomian heresy, rejected the notion of life being framed within a set
of moral laws. I argue that Blake cannot easily be placed in either group; his work exhibits a
fidelity to the redemptive potential of law, coupled with a real concern that to define freedoms
in legal terms serves to limit rather than to liberate.
Blake's work thus engages with a problem of the period: how to understand the new
discourses of law. The customary account of the ancient English conunon law is predicated on
the idea that it is codified, yet not written down; secular, though grounded in divine principle.
These ambivalences are exploited by Blake in his poetic exploration of the law in the 1790s. In
his nineteenth-century epics, Blake finds increasing help in dissenting religion's reconstruction
of a radicalized Jesus. Through this radical prophetic voice, Blake is able to construct a
redemptive legality founded on a deinstitutio-nalized Christianity, a constitutionalism that is
also recovered from the conventional customary account
Faith, feeling and gender in the writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake
No full textThis thesis examines David Hartley’s Observations on Man (1749) and elucidates how Hartley’s mechanical approach to mind, his conception of emotion, and the religious status he awards the body were newly relevant after 1791. In this way it identifies a ‘Hartlean culture’ within the Romantic period and seeks to explore how such an intellectual climate influenced the radical writers William Blake (1757–1827) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). Blake and Wollstonecraft were acquainted with the famous bookseller Joseph Johnson, who republished Observations on Man in various forms and versions between 1775 and 1801. They also had an association with Johnson’s circle; the Hartlean concepts found throughout their work evidence Hartley’s latent popularity within intellectual culture, as well as the writers’ engagement with contemporary philosophical ideas. I propose that the renewed curiosity in Hartley during the 1790s reveals a specific religious and revolutionary culture wherein non-conformist views about Christianity and new ideas about the body, emotion and women flourished. Such a cultural moment renders Hartley a particularly important figure for debate since he integrated progressive values about equality and faith alongside advancing understanding of anatomy and mind. Hartley identified how God and happiness could be found physically within each person. He did this by combining a complex theory of vibrations and theory of association, where the body and mind functioned mechanically through a person’s feelings of pleasure and pain. These feelings manifested as physical vibrations and eventually led every person to desire goodness until finally, they can become ‘Godlike’ themselves. Hartley’s amalgamation of Christian and new theoretical concepts appealed to Blake and Wollstonecraft, and was much unlike the approach of Joseph Priestley who abridged Observations in 1775 to promote a wholly ‘scientific’ text. In this way, we can see resonances between Hartley, Blake and Wollstonecraft, even if they existed in different cultural contexts. In rethinking Blake and Wollstonecraft through Hartley, I offer new insights into their feminism. In particular I attend to how Hartlean culture enabled these writers to re-imagine gender and emotion: Wollstonecraft reinstates the female experience back into Hartlean concepts in order to promote women’s emotional potential and what she understands as the special power of the female-female bond. Blake responds to both Wollstonecraft and Hartley with his elevation of the feminine, one that envisions new potential for both sexes, emotionally and spiritually. In both cases, the writers share a fascination for the image of the female saviour, and they use terminology and concepts found in Hartley’s work to communicate their views. In being attentive to the shared vocabulary and ideas of these three writers’ works, this thesis highlights the importance of David Hartley and Hartlean culture for the field of Romantic Studies. It also illuminates Observations on Man as a vital contribution to the intellectual context of the 1790s
Job’s Gethsemane: tradition and imagination in William Blake’s illustrations for the book of job
No full textBlake created two versions of his Illustrations of the Book of Job, and it is now agreed that about twenty years separates his first watercolour series and the final engraved set of plates. The first chapter is biographical and technical: it establishes that the Butts series of water-colours was the product of the tumultuous and creative years 1805-10, following a time wh6n Blake experienced a strong sense of vision and Christian regeneration; whereas the engraved set was produced 1821-1826, at the end of his life. It also reviews all Blake's treatments of the Job theme. The friends-turned-accusers seem to have been a central pre-occupation. Blake's illustrations contain important elements which are not found in the Old Testament text. I have followed Bo Lindberg's principle that explanation should be sought in the artistic tradition, and in the work itself The second chapter concentrates on the tradition available to Blake, following and supplementing Lindberg's examination of the influence of the apocryphal Testament of Job, and of the artistic tradition of seeing Job as alter Christus and as Christian. Chapters three to five, interpreting Blake's imaginative use of this material, are new both in focussing on the Butts set, and in exploring the importance to Blake of St.Teresa, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Hervey and other people of prayer. Also discussed are Joseph Hallett's radical biblical commentary, of which Blake owned a copy, variant proofs discovered by Robert Essick of the first and last engraved plates, and the thirteenth century Job wall- paintings discovered in 1800 in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. Blake's Job was unique in the corpus of his work. Previous studies have followed Wicksteed in concentrating on the engraved set, and no one has explored the implications of the earlier dating now agreed for the watercolour series. The thesis is essentially concerned with Blake's Christocentric theme, and Job's inner journey of prayer, in these illustrations. Conclusions drawn differ substantially from Wicksteed's
ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0: qFit version 3.2.2
No full textWhat's Changed
Fix CI after master-to-main switch by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/162
Update README.md by @ashrayar in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/161
Update README in main by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/163
Analysis script updates by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/168
a post refine script that works! by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/169
Improve README for M1 Macs by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/174
Make sure the user provides a resolution value if the input map is in MRC/CCP4 or MAP formats by @ashrayar in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/180
Unify all QFitOptions classes into a single class by @ss199514 in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/178
Fixing large maps being able to be fed into qFit Protein without crashing by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/176
If options.nproc is 1, run QFitRotamericResidue job in MainProcess by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/185
179 qfit protein outputting duplicate hetatms by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/186
Clarify warning about AttributeError at Cβ by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/187
Fixed X-ray data labels search and changed how phenix refinement parameters are given in post qfit refinement xray script by @ashrayar in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/188
Fix multiconformer_model.pdb not found error when it is actually present by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/196
189 delete qfit combine qfit ppidesign qfit segment and other entrypoints that dont work by @ashrayar in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/197
Fix post analysis script typos by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/193
Better error message map/model are in the incorrect order upon input. by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/192
Small patch fixes by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/195
removing lines by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/201
If a residue-sampling checkpoint exists, don't add it to the list of residues to be sampled by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/211
Instruct users to install qFit from main branch code by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/212
Rewrite XMap.extract() for 500x speed boost by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/214
Fix non-convex objective errors by selectively deleting conformers by @blake-riley in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/213
Delete SpaceGroups.py by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/218
Improved error message: unknown file type error in qfit residue by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/220
Refine script: output names and riding hydrogens by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/221
226 create test to read in and write out map file by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/228
227 Building tests for a variety of SG by @ss199514 in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/229
224 create a test to read in different model files by @ashrayar in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/232
Change branch: 226 create test to read inwrite out map file by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/239
qFit 3.2.2: Merging dev -> main by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/237
Update README.md by @stephaniewankowicz in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/240
New Contributors
@ashrayar made their first contribution in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/161
@ss199514 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/pull/178
Full Changelog: https://github.com/ExcitedStates/qfit-3.0/compare/v3.2.1...v3.2.
A Hundred Years of Photo Wallets:Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration's Book of the Month
No full textAn interview with Annebella Pollen, author of More Than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets, which was selected as the May 2023 Book of the Month by the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Dr. Holly Blake and Dr. Melissa Ooten - Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Holly Blake, Director of the WILL* program and Associate Dean for Outreach Education and Development, and Dr. Melissa Ooten, Associate Director of the WILL* Program and gender research specialist, discuss their new book, Audacious Voices: Profiles in Intersectional Feminism, published recently by She Writes Press. The book is a collection of twelve stories from WILL* alums. WILL* is a nationally recognized program for students interested in exploring gender through an intersectional lens, both in and out of the classroom. Students strengthen their leadership skills as they actively work to create a more equitable world
A Hundred Years of Photo Wallets:Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration's Book of the Month
No full textAn interview with Annebella Pollen, author of More Than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets, which was selected as the May 2023 Book of the Month by the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
A review of the \u3ci\u3eColaspis suilla\u3c/i\u3e species group, with description of three new species from Florida (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)
No full textThe Colaspis suilla species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) is defined relative to other species of the genus Colaspis Fabricius occurring in the United States. The group is composed of five species, of which three from Florida are described as new species: C. ansa Riley from the Florida Panhandle, C. skelleyi Riley from Central Florida, and C. thomasi Riley from the southern Lake Wales Ridge. Colaspis suilla borealis Blake is reduced to a full synonym of C. suilla Fabricius, new synonymy. Comparative remarks, habitus images, images of male and female genitalia, range maps, specimen data, and a key to species are presented
Essays in information elicitation and market design
No full text"This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. The first two focus on how to elicit information about the state of the world from strategic agents, either to make a decision or for its own sake. The third studies a model of decentralized two-sided matching markets.
In ""Mechanisms for making accurate decisions in biased crowds,"" I study decision rules for finding the true answer to a binary question using the opinions of biased agents. Taking majority rule as a baseline, I study peer-prediction decision rules, which ask agents to predict the opinions of others in addition to providing their own. Incorporating first-order beliefs into the decision rule has the potential to recognize the correct answer even when the majority is wrong. However, I show the majority rule is essentially the only deterministic, neutral, anonymous, and interim dominance solvable mechanism. I then characterize all randomized peer-prediction mechanisms with these properties, using this result to show majority rule is the optimal mechanism in this class. Finally, I consider a simple, non-incentive-compatible decision rule based on the median prediction that implements majority rule when all agents are strategic and improves on majority rule when an unknown subpopulation is honest.
In ""Minimum truth serums with optional predictions,"" I introduce a class of mechanisms for eliciting private correlated signals from a group of expected score maximizers without external verification or knowledge about the agents' belief structure. Built on proper scoring rules, these minimum truth serums ask agents to report a signal and a prediction of the signals of others. If two agents with the same signal have the same expectations about the signals of others, the Bayesian incentive compatibility of these mechanisms follows with no further assumptions on the agents' belief structure. With a slight modification, the mechanism is still feasible and incentive compatible when the prediction portion of the report is optional.
In ""Uncoordinated two-sided matching markets,"" I study a decentralized proposal model in joint work with Juan Fung. The study of two-sided matching markets is now a major subfield of market design, focused primarily on the variants of the deferred acceptance algorithm. As a centralized mechanism, deferred acceptance is guaranteed to return a stable match. However, there is little definite work on whether uncoordinated agents find a stable matching on their own and the consequences if not. We show that small to moderately large uncoordinated markets reach a stable match within n^2 proposals from each agent when the proposal strategy isn't completely naive. We also show that stopping the proposal process early before stabilizing results in a more egalitarian and higher welfare match, particular when the two sides of the market are unbalanced. This suggests uncoordinated markets wouldn't benefit from centralization unless there is an obvious failing like market unraveling."Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-11-09 without embargo termsThe student, Blake Riley, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-08 at 12:37.The student, Blake Riley, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-07-08 at 12:49.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-07-11 at 08:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9825 on 2016-11-09 at 10:23:08Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T17:50:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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