Representations of the Female Breasts and Milk in Blake's Composite Art

人们花了两年时间来研究威廉·布莱克在他的诗歌和视觉艺术中如何表现女性的乳房和牛奶。布莱克的视觉艺术传统上是独立于他的语言文字来考察的，尽管这两种艺术媒介在他的艺术执行中是密不可分的。他的诗歌实际上是插图交织的，我将这两种艺术媒介视为一种复合艺术形式。在对布莱克的复合艺术的分析中，我重点关注了关键的主题：女性的乳房和牛奶。在澄清了他所说的这些主题与18世纪对它们的理解不同的意思后，我考察了女性的乳房和乳汁在布莱克的作品中是如何可视化的，特别是在他后来的启蒙作品中。在男女之间的性冲突中，从女性的乳房发出的乳汁与男性的精液明显相反。在我对布莱克后期作品的审查中，我仔细研究了性别问题。我利用了布莱克有启发性的作品的传真件。对布莱克档案馆网站上提供的数字化图片进行分析也很有用。

Two years have been spent in examining the ways in which William Blake represented the female breasts and milk in his poetry as well as in his visual art. Blake's visual art is conventionally examined independently of his verbal text, despite that the two mediums of art are inseparably combined in his execution of art. His poems are actually interlined with illustrations, and I regard the two mediums of art as a form of composite art.In my analysis of Blake's composite art, I focus upon the key motifs, "the female breasts" and "milk." Having clarified what he meant by these motifs against the eighteenth-century understanding of them, I examined how the female breast and milk are visualized in Blake's works, especially in his later illuminated works. Issuing from the female breasts, milk is significantly opposed to the male semen in the sexual conflict between women and men. Gender issues are closely examined in my examination of Blake's later works.I made use of the facsimiles of Blake's illuminated works. It was also useful to analyze the digitized pictures which were available in the Blake Archive web site.