{"id":15661,"date":"2016-09-21T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15661"},"modified":"2016-09-21T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:31:06","slug":"book-report-drawings-of-william-blake-by-sir-geoffrey-keynes-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/book-report-drawings-of-william-blake-by-sir-geoffrey-keynes-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Drawings of William Blake<\/i> by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>This book<\/a> is a collection of drawings by William Blake. William Blake, if you have an English degree, is best known for his hit Eye of the Tiger<\/a>. But apparently he was also a painter and artist as well, but we didn’t cover that in my poetry classes.<\/p>\n

At any rate, this book collects a number of sketches of his, some of which were doodles essentially and some which were studies for later paintings. Unfortunately, this is a sketchbook of raw material for those paintings, so the finished pieces aren’t actually included.<\/p>\n

So it’s like looking at a notebook of Stephen King with a couple bits of outlines, a few phrases here and there, but nothing complete and finished. So it’s more for serious, serious fans of William Blake or artists, I suppose, that like to look at techniques from other artists. Perhaps scholars would be interested. But if you’re looking for something interesting to flip through and marvel over, this is actually less useful than Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall<\/a><\/em>. Which, if I am not mistaken, was also published by Dover Publications.<\/p>\n