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Chapter 2 - William Blake, Antiquarians, and the Status of the Copy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2018

Thora Brylowe
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Chapter 2 offers a new reading of William Blake’s writings about antiquity and antiquarianism. His work on Greek antiquity affected his understanding of the status of reproductive engraving. I argue that while his illuminated printing was collapsing the space between picture and word and between originality and commercial reproducibility, Blake was also attempting to rewrite the history of art to include engraving as the central link between sculpture and painting. The sister arts served as a means to make lateral the relationship between picture and word—but more radically between painting and engraving.
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Romantic Art in Practice
Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760–1820
, pp. 65 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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