Tag: enlightenment
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Crazy William Blake’s Revolutionary Art
On his blog, These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson celebrates the revolutionary art of William Blake. “Artistically,” says Mr. Jackson, “Blake was influenced by Raphael, Michelangelo and Dürer, but his mental life was informed by the political, social and philosophical forces that broke from the moorings of enlightenment (and its strict codes of reason and order), fueling the bloody revolutions of America and France.”…