William Blake and London: The Artist Visualising Jerusalem

威廉·布莱克和伦敦：艺术家想象耶路撒冷

• 批准号: 2625834
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Roehampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2625834
• 关键词: William; Blake; London; Artist; Visualising

Blake was an unmistakably urban, and emphatically a London, poet and artist. His representations of themetropolis, however, constantly shift in his work: at points the city is the eternal 'City of God', and at others achaotic series of disconnected processes. This variety is reflected by contemporary London's drastic materialchanges ensuing from its commercial expansion, and by the proliferation of contemporary visualrepresentations of the city. Examining Blake in the context of London's visual print culture, this research willproduce distinctive new insights into his prophetic works, focusing in particular on areas that have been underresearched:London prospects; gateways and boundaries; and the city as process.Drawing on archival collections (i.e. British Museum, Metropolitan Archives, Society of Antiquaries) this PhDwill trace across Blake's oeuvre how his interactions with his city, as embodied in his texts, were mediated bycontemporary religious, economic, and especially visual cultures. While much critical work (e.g. Michael) hasapproached the city in Blake's works, his engagement with visual print culture representations of Londonremains under-explored. This thesis will show how the various iterations of London encountered by Blakemanifest themselves in his representations and conceptualisations of urban spaces. Blake's glimpsed utopiancities will be related to the Christian concept of the 'City of God', and his alienated urban spaces to the idea ofthe city as a series of material and economic processes. This new approach to Blake ties into recentscholarship (e.g. Myrone) which locates the birth of the modern artist in early eighteenth-century London, andputs Blake's work into dialogue with Marxist critics Lefebvre and de Certeau for the first time. Its focus on printculture also takes Blake's relationship with his environment in fresh directions, exploring how his works fits intocontemporary attempts to process and visualise the sprawling city.

布莱克无疑是一个城市人，更是一位伦敦诗人和艺术家。然而，他对大都会的描述在他的作品中不断变化：在某些地方，这座城市是永恒的“上帝之城”，而在另一些地方，则是一系列无趣的、互不相连的过程。这种多样性反映在当代伦敦因商业扩张而发生的巨大物质变化，以及当代城市视觉表现的激增。在伦敦视觉印刷文化的背景下考察布莱克，这项研究将对他的先知性作品产生独特的新见解，特别是关注于那些研究不足的领域：伦敦前景；门户和边界；以及作为过程的城市。本博士将利用档案收藏品(即大英博物馆、大都会档案馆、文物学会)追溯布莱克的全部作品，如他的文本所体现的那样，他与他的城市的互动是如何受到当代宗教、经济，特别是视觉文化的调节。虽然许多批判性的作品(如迈克尔)在布莱克的作品中已经接近了这座城市，但他与伦敦视觉印刷文化的接触仍未得到探索。这篇论文将展示布莱克曼费斯特在他的城市空间的表现和概念化中所遇到的伦敦的各种迭代。布莱克所看到的乌托邦将与基督教的“上帝之城”概念有关，而他疏远的城市空间将与城市是一系列物质和经济过程的想法有关。这种关于布莱克的新方法与最近的学术研究(例如米龙)联系在一起，后者将这位现代艺术家的出生定位于18世纪初的伦敦，并首次将布莱克的作品与马克思主义批评家列斐伏尔和德·瑟图进行了对话。它对印刷文化的关注也将布莱克与他的环境的关系带到了新的方向，探索他的作品如何适应当代处理和可视化这座庞大城市的努力。