William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
By: Stephen F. Eisenman ; with contributions by Mark Crosby, Elizabeth Ferrell, Jacob Henry Leveton, W.J.T. Mitchell, and John P. Murphy
Contributors: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780691175256
Subjects: Arts and society; Influence; Exhibitions; History
Description: A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a relatively unknown nonconventional artist with a strong political bent. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius is a beautifully illustrated look at how, some two hundred years after his birth, the antiestablishment values embodied in Blake's art and poetry became a model for artists of the American counterculture. This book provides new insights into the politics and protests of Blake's own lifetime, and the generation of artists who revived and reimagined his work in the mid-1940s through 1970, or what might be called the 'long sixties.' Contributors explore Blake's outsider status in Georgian England and how his individualistic vision spoke to members of the Beat Generation, hippies, radical poets and writers, and other voices of the counterculture.0Among the artists, musicians, and writers who looked to Blake were such diverse figures as Diane Arbus, Jay DeFeo, the Doors, Sam Francis, Allen Ginsberg, Jess, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Charles Seliger, Maurice Sendak, Robert Smithson, Clyfford Still, and many others.00Exhibition: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, United States (23.09.2017 - 11.03.2018).
Notes: "Co-published by the Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press."

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition William Blake and the Age of Aquarius ' -- t.p. verso.

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, September 23, 2017-March 11, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword / Lisa G. Corrin; title: Acknowledgments / Corinne Granof; title: William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / Stephen F. Eisenman; title: Prophets, madmen, and millenarians / Mark Crosby; title: William Blake on the West Coast / Elizabeth Ferrell; title: William Blake and art against surveillance / Jacob Henry Leveton; title: Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius / John P. Murphy; title: Sendak, Blake, and the image of childhood / Mark Crosby; title: Blake now and then / W.J.T. Mitchell.