Blake Lavater And Physiognomy

Author : Sibylle Erle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351193694
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy written by Sibylle Erle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Blake never travelled to the continent, yet his creation myth is far more European than has ever been acknowledged. The painter Henry Fuseli introduced Blake to traditional European thinking, and Blake responded to late 18th century body-theory in his Urizen books (1794-95), which emerged from his professional work as a copy-engraver on Henry Hunter's translation of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1789-98). Lavater's work contains hundreds of portraits and their physiognomical readings. Blake, Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds and their contemporaries took a keen interest in the ideas behind physiognomy in their search for the right balance between good likeness and type in portraits. Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy demonstrates how the problems occurring during the production of the Hunter translation resonate in Blake's treatment of the Genesis story. Blake takes us back to the creation of the human body, and interrogates the idea that 'God created man after his own likeness.' He introduces the 'Net of Religion', a device which presses the human form into material shape, giving it personality and identity. As Erle shows, Blake's startlingly original take on the creation myth is informed by Lavater's pursuit of physiognomy: the search for divine likeness, traced in the faces of their contemporary men."

Author : Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher : Hansebooks
ISBN 13 : 9783337853563
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Physiognomy - Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Vol. 2, Part 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1792. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Physiognomy written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physiognomy, Or, The Corresponding Analogy Between the Conformation of the Features and the Ruling Passions of the Mind written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephanie O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519023
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism written by Stephanie O'Rourke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Author : John Graham
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy written by John Graham and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lavater's Physiognomy: an international checklist of publications": p. 85-101.

Author : Johann Caspar Lavater
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Aphorisms on Man written by Johann Caspar Lavater and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441143432
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Blake in the Orient written by Steve Clark and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient.

Author : Joseph Monteyne
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487527748
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Critique in the Age of Gillray written by Joseph Monteyne and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing -- Haunted Media -- Good Copies, Bad Copies -- Social Detritus, Paper Detritus.

Author : Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142873
Total Pages : 393 pages
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Download or read book Divine Images written by Jason Whittaker and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as “The Tyger” and “Jerusalem,” and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake’s radical religious and political temperament and that his visionary art was created to express a personal mythology that sought to recreate an entirely new approach to philosophy and art. This book examines both Blake’s visual and poetic work over his long career, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations, to Dante and the Book of Job. Divine Images further explores Blake’s immense popular appeal and influence after his death, offering an inspirational look at a pioneering figure.