Tate British Artists: William Blake

Description

More than 150 years after his death, William Blake (1757-1827) remains a cryptic and controversial figure. Equally gifted as a poet and a painter, he produced work that is as arresting for its beauty as for its strangeness. With this fresh examination of Blake's unfolding career, William Vaughan presents an artist with a radical and utterly individual vision, who was deeply concerned with the social, religious, and political issues of his age.

William Vaughan is professor emeritus in the history of art at Birkbeck College, University of London.