The germ of this Q&A lay in a query to the Blake Archive that came my way on the road to its destination. It had been a while since I had corresponded with Hans-Ulrich, and I took the opportunity to ask if he would be willing to discuss his translation project. Our conversation has been very lightly edited.
Continue readingASECS 2025 (Held Online)
Round Table: The Legacies of Morris Eaves
Co-Chairs: Wayne Ripley, Winona State University, wripley@winona.edu; Tom Hothem, University of California, Merced, thothem@ucmerced.edu.
Weekend: March 28/29
Continue readingThe spring issue of the Blake Quarterly will mark the debut of Mark Crosby as sales review editor; Mark succeeds Bob Essick in that role.
Continue readingRecollections and appreciations of Morris Eaves from colleagues, friends, and the Blake community.
Continue readingThe Blake Archive recently published “The Phoenix to Mrs. Butts,” and it occurs to me that this post deserves the title “The Phoenix to Mr. Getty,” since it concerns an exhibition that has been longer in the making than anyone could have anticipated. Next month, the Getty Center in Los Angeles will unveil William Blake: Visionary, postponed from 2020, when it was scheduled after the show at Tate Britain.
Continue readingThis interview was conducted by Elizabeth Effinger, who has edited and condensed it for publication. It will also appear in the fall 2023 (vol. 57, no. 2) issue of the Blake Quarterly.
Continue readingThe cover of our spring 2023 issue (vol. 56, no. 4) features a map of Australia, with the states and largest territory represented by details of works by Blake. The puzzle is to discover the link between the image and the state/territory in each case.
Continue readingDuring my archive work this past fall, I was asked to markup Copies D and L of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). At the time, I had also recently reread Visions for other research, and it lead contemplating about what Blake attempted to convey through only illustration.
Continue readingI’m lucky enough to have some hidden skills in Adobe Photoshop, and they’ve become quite useful every now and again on the Blake Archive. Photos of manuscripts, though high resolution, still present visual challenges when it comes to identifying near-invisible features like erasures, corrections, and other odd quirks. And while we’re trained to be extremely observant and thorough when analyzing a manuscript, the magic of image-processing software can give us an advantage.
Continue readingOur spring issue (vol. 55, no. 4) came out this week.
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