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Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
This volume brings together some of the most exciting current scholarship on these themes. This interdisciplinary and geographically broad-ranging volume pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika.
William Blake
William Blake was one of the most significant figures of the Romantic era. An artist and poet of outstanding originality, Blake's work gave powerful expression to his own visionary universe, as well as to those of authors such as Milton and Dante. Imagination was of paramount importance to Blake: he believed art must proceed from inner visions and not from the empirical observation of nature. Sumptuously illustrated, this beautiful volume presents the National Gallery of Victoria's Blake holdings, which include illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost and The Book of Job, among other works. It celebrates a creative genius who, through his watercolours, prints and illustrated books, created some of the most compelling and original works of his time. A special pictorial volume with a focus on the NGV's rich holdings of William Blake's work. Features scholarly text by the NGV's Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cathy Leahy. Includes beautiful full reproductions and details of William Blake's remarkable work. Published to coincide with the exhibition to be held at NGV International, 4 April - 31 August 2014.
Prints and Drawings in the International Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria
This book features the major prints and drawings from the largest collectionn Australia - over 20,000 works. Includes works from the NGV's largeollections of Rembrandt, Blake, Turner, Durer and Constable.
Fred Williams
Fred Williams is recognised as one of Australia's most significant landscape painters of the twentieth century. Yet, the artist's early commitment to drawing and painting the human figure, his accomplishments as a draughtsman and the importance of drawing in his oeuvre are less well known. Fred Williams: The London Drawings explores these aspects of Williams's work and presents a focused survey of the drawings made during his formative years in London (1952-56), when he first came to maturity as an artist. Important drawings from the NGV Collection - including series of drawings that he made in the music halls and on the streets of London, as well as at the city's zoo and in formal life-drawing classes - reveal Williams's extraordinary observational skills and his ability to capture the world around him. With contributions by Cathy Leahy, Deanna Petherbridge, Chris Stephens, Fiona Gruber, Louise Wilson and Lyn Williams AM, Fred Williams: The London Drawings presents new scholarship and rich imagery on one of the most celebrated figures in Australian art and the artistic processes that shaped his practice.
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Folds of Past, Present and Future
This volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and critical light on the historiography of education, on issues of de-/colonization, on the historical development of the educational sciences and on the potentiality attached to the use of new and challenging source material.
William Blake
A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake. William Blake (1757–1827) is a universal artist—an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most striking and enduring images in art. His personal struggles in a period of political terror and oppression; creativity, inventiveness, and technical innovation; and vision and political commitment keep his work relevant today. Featuring over 130 color images, this accessible yet comprehensive introduction to Blake’s achievements and ambition includes discussions of his legacy in America; relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists who preceded him; visionary imagination; and unparalleled skill as a printmaker.
Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what ‘went before’, as well as what ‘came after’. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft. In addition, the geographical pattern of similarities and diversities suggests a comparative approach, transcending confessional as well as national borders. Throughout the medieval and early modern period, the orthodoxy of the Christian Church was continuously contested. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650. Neither contesters nor followers of orthodoxy were homogeneous groups or fractions. They themselves and their ideas changed from one century to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within a common framework of interpretation. This collection of essays focuses on this complex.
