William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
- ISBN-10
- 069117525X
- ISBN-13
- 9780691175256
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-17
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Authors
- Stephen F. Eisenman, Mark Crosby, Elizabeth Ferrell
Description
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / by Stephen F. Eisenman -- Prophets, madmen, and millenarians: Blake and the (counter)culture of the 1790s / by Mark Crosby -- William Blake on the West Coast / Elizabeth Ferrell -- William Blake and art against surveillance / Jacob Henry Leveton -- Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius / John Murphy -- "My teacher in all things": Sendak, Blake, and the visual language of childhood / Mark Crosby -- Blake then and now / W.J.T. Mitchell
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