William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

Resumen del libro

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired with the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake.

In 1973, Derek Jarman set off from London to film the stones of Avebury. He was following in the footsteps of Paul Nash, who had photographed the ancient megaliths a generation before. Standing in that muddy field, by those stones, both artists had felt a direct connection to their hero a man who had died a long, long time ago, yet who remained electrically alive to them.

In this alluring and poetic odyssey, Philip Hoare traces the enduring legacy of William Blake and how he came to inspire so many creative lives. Reaching out of his past and into our future, Blake draws together the natural world and metaphysical realms, merging the human and the animal and the spiritual, firing up twentieth-century artists, filmmakers, poets, writers and musicians with his radical promise of absolute freedom. This stirring, deeply felt book brings us back to Blake and shows that art still has the power to create positive change.

Biografía del autor

p Philip Hoare formó parte del movimiento punk de Londres en la década de 1970. Cambió la música por las letras y en 1990 publicó su primer libro, i Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant. /i Entre sus obras se cuentan i Leviatán o la ballena /i (Ático de los Libros, 2010), que lo confirmó como uno de los grandes talentos de la nueva narrativa inglesa y le valió el premio BBC Samuel Johnson de 2009 al mejor libro de No Ficción publicado en el Reino Unido; i El mar interior, /i mezcla de biografía y guía de viajes por Inglaterra, las Azores, Sri Lanka y Nueva Zelanda; i El alma del mar, /i que aborda la relación entre el planeta del agua y la sensibilidad artística con su acostumbrada maestría literaria, y i Alberto y la ballena /i , una fascinante reflexión acerca del vínculo entre el arte, la naturaleza y el poder de la imaginación.<br>