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• Title:William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / Stephen F. Eisenman ; with contributions by Mark Crosby, Elizabeth Ferrell, Jacob Henry Leveton, W.J.T. Mitchell, and John P. Murphy.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Eisenman, Stephen. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius.
  Crosby, Mark Christopher, 1972- Prophets, madmen, and millenarians.
  Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.
  
• Published/Created:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press ; [Evanston, Ill.] : Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2017.
  

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  • Call Number: N6797.B57 A4 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Blake, William, 1757-1827--Exhibitions.
  Blake, William, 1757-1827--Influence--Exhibitions.
  Arts and society--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:xi, 232 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Summary: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. Exhibition: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, United States (23.09.2017 - 11.03.2018).
  
• Notes:"Published in conjunction with the exhibition William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, September 23, 2017-March 11, 2018."
  Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, September 23, 2017-March 11, 2018.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780691175256 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  069117525X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / Stephen F. Eisenman
  Prophets, Madmen, and Millenarians / 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 P. Murphy
  Sendak, Blake, and the Image of Childhood / Mark Crosby
  Blake Now and Then / W.J.T. Mitchell.