This carefully crafted ebook: "Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Blakes illuminated books; produced from 1783-1795; are remarkable examples of complex syntheses: of form - poetry and painting; and of subject - the real with the mythical. Blake created his own mythological creations to populate his poems and paintings: concepts and ideas became personified into universal representations. He used these mythological characters to explain and act out his singular view of history. Blake divided the nature of man into four personified elements: "Los; the imagination and eventual source of redemption; Urizen; the reason and vengeful Jehovah of the Old Testament as opposed to the merciful Christ of the New; Luvah; the senses; and Tharmas; the emotions". Each of these characters has an emanation; or female "offshoot"; who is commonly a negative character attempting to dominate her male counterpart. "William Blake (1757 ndash; 1827) was an English poet; painter; and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime; Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good read for Bowie fansBy T. StoneVery interesting reading of Bowies so called creative period. As a fan; I was able to see how he works to create his music and what his strength and weakness as human are. It was a bit hard to get used to the authors style of writing but I got into it once I started reading. Good book; if you are a fan of David Bowie.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. it seems like the author dislikes Bowie (which is actually kind of ...By Moon G.Strange book. Its as much about Berlin as it is Bowie. The writing style is artistic and somewhat schizophrenic. A lot of it is written in the present tense; which is weird. For the first part of the book; it seems like the author dislikes Bowie (which is actually kind of refreshing); but then it has its moments of Bowie-worship as well. Some of the information and scenes from the first half of the book are then repeated later in the book for no good reason; just total redundancy. wont let me do half stars; but I really wanted to give it 2.5 stars; no more.