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Newsletter Blake in Paris The first exhibition in France devoted to William Blake since 1947 will open at the Petit Palais on 1 April 2009 and run to 28 June. Curated by Michael Phillips, it will be composed of more than 150 works and represent Blake as a poet, painter, and artist-printmaker. The accompanying catalogue, in addition to listing the works, will also include over twenty essays by John Barrell, Martin Butlin, Elizabeth Denlinger, Anthony Dyson, Peter France, David Fuller, Suzanne Hoover, Andrew Lincoln, Saree Makdisi, Jon Mee, Martin Myrone, Morton Paley, Martin Postle, and Jon Stallworthy, amongst others. A conference is being planned to take place at the Collège de France, and a program of lectures in both French and English is being organized by UFR d’Études Anglophones, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7). A Note on the Huntington Edition of Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceRobert N. Essick The Huntington Library recently published a color
reproduction of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy
E. I served as the volume’s
editor and provided a commentary on the poems and designs. In the “Acknowledgments” (177),
I state that “we show the images on a background based on the original
paper.” In spite of the production team’s best efforts, the
paper color in the reproduction does not accurately represent Blake’s
paper. The reproduction is too brown, with a slight rosy hue, whereas
the original is much whiter, with a slight yellow-gray tint. The one
exception is “The Tyger,” plate 40 in copy E. Because of
overexposure to sunlight while on exhibition for many years, the paper
has turned brown. The reproduction is accurate in this regard. The representation
of Blake’s inks and watercolors on all plates is also true to the
original. Project Blake Matthew Couper, the director of Project
Blake, which celebrates Blake's life in Lambeth,
has kindly provided the following details of the project's initiatives: Upcoming Reviews Craig Atwood. Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem. Pennsylvania State UP, 2004. David Bindman, with Darryl Pinckney. Mind-Forg'd Manacles: William Blake and Slavery. Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2007. Blake's Shadow. Exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, January to April 2008. Steve Clark and David Worrall, eds. Blake, Nation and Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki, eds. The Reception of Blake in the Orient. Continuum, 2006. Glen Robert Gill. Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth. U of Toronto P, 2006. Matthew J. A. Green. Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism. Palgrave, 2005. Kevin Hutchings. Songs of William Blake. (CD) 2007. Saree Makdisi. Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s. U of Chicago P, 2003. Martin Myrone. The Blake Book. Tate Publishing, 2007. Hatsuko Niimi. Blake's Dialogic Texts. Keio UP, 2006. William Pressly. The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare's "Fine Frenzy" in Late Eighteenth-Century British Art. U of Delaware P, 2008. Robert Rix. William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity. Ashgate, 2007. Christopher Rowland. "Wheels within Wheels": William Blake and the Ezekiel's Merkabah in Text and Image. Marquette UP, 2007. Sheila Spector. "Glorious incomprehensible": The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language. Bucknell UP, 2001. Jason Whittaker and David Worrall, eds. Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. William Blake: "I still go on / Till the Heavens and Earth are gone." Exhibition at Tate Britain, November 2007 to June 2008. Nicholas M. Williams, ed. William Blake Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Julia Wright. Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation. Ohio UP, 2004.
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