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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
Interview with Marlene Robinson Blake
No full textMrs. Marlene Blake is a 1953 graduate of the James Walker SON. Her class was the first to attend classes a Wilmington College (Isaac Bear).After graduation she worked in Labor/Delivery at JW. After several moves around the south Mrs. Blake resumed her nursing education at UNCW, pursuing a 4year degree (BSN). Her memories are detailed regarding her time in training and makes distinctions between the diploma school and 4year. (S1) Mrs. Blake donated textbooks, cape and nursing ca
Carazziella hymenobranchiata Blake and Kudenov 1978
No full textCarazziella hymenobranchiata Blake and Kudenov, 1978 Type locality: Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Type material: Holotype: NMV G 2865; Paratypes: 1, NMV G 2862; 5, NMV G 2863; 4, NMV G 2864; Most incomplete. Location and author of most recently described material: Blake and Kudenov (1978). Recorded distribution: Australia: Victoria (Port Phillip Bay).Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
Dipolydora tentaculata Blake and Kudenov 1978
No full textDipolydora tentaculata (Blake and Kudenov, 1978) Type locality: Botany Bay, Towra Beach, New South Wales, Australia. Type material: Holotype: NMV G 2885; Paratypes: NMV G 2886; QM G 11597. Location and author of most recently described material: Botany Bay, Towra Beach, New South Wales; Moreton Bay, Middle Banks, QLD, Australia (Blake & Kudenov 1978). Recorded distribution: Australia: Queensland (Moreton Bay), New South Wales (Botany Bay, Hawkesbury River).Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
Dipolydora pilocollaris Blake and Kudenov 1978
No full textDipolydora pilocollaris (Blake and Kudenov, 1978) Type locality: Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Type material: Holotype: NMV G 2878; Paratypes: NMV G 2879-2880. Location and author of most recently described material: Blake and Kudenov (1978). Recorded distribution: Known only from type locality. Not reported since original description.Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
Carazziella hirsutiseta Blake and Kudenov 1978
No full textCarazziella hirsutiseta Blake and Kudenov, 1978 Type locality: Towra Beach, New South Wales, Australia. Type material: Holotype: NMV G 2866; Paratypes: 6, NMV G 2867 -G 2969. Location and author of most recently described material: Blake and Kudenov (1978). Recorded distribution: Australia: New South Wales, (Botany Bay, Hawkesbury River).Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
Pseudopolydora glandulosa Blake and Kudenov 1978
No full textPseudopolydora glandulosa Blake and Kudenov, 1978 Type locality: Westernport, Crib Point, CPBS Station 300, Victoria, Australia. Type material: Holotype: NMV G 2899; Paratypes: 5, NMV G 2900. Location and author of most recently described material: Australia (Blake & Kudenov 1978); Type material examined by Radashevsky and Hseih (2000). Recorded distribution: Australia: Victoria (Westernport); New South Wales (Botany Bay); Queensland (Moreton Bay).Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
Dipolydora notialis Blake and Kudenov 1978
No full textDipolydora notialis (Blake and Kudenov, 1978) Type locality: Tipara, South Australia from Haliotis roei shell. Type material: Holotype: NMV G 2877. Location and author of most recently described material: Blake and Kudenov (1978). Recorded distribution: Known only from type locality. Not reported since original description.Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356
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