{"id":2972,"date":"2026-07-16T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lighteningweightloss.com\/diy\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:30:51","slug":"the-art-world-couldnt-understand-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighteningweightloss.com\/diy\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"The Art World Couldn&#8217;t Understand Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XUmgIQIpg-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Go to https:\/\/www.squarespace.com\/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art Production Studio. For more National Gallery of Art videos: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UC416BswuE2ItX23GySxZcRQ <\/p>\n<p>SOURCES<\/p>\n<p>Ackroyd, Peter. Blake. Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Becker, Howard S. Art Worlds. University of California Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley, G. E., Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. Yale University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Edited and introduced by Randal Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Eaves, Morris, editor. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Eaves, Morris. William Blake\u2019s Theory of Art. Princeton University Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton University Press, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Frye, Northrop. \u201cPoetry and Design in William Blake.\u201d The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 10, no. 1, 1951, pp. 35\u201342. JSTOR, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/426786.<\/p>\n<p>Higgs, John. William Blake vs the World. Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, W. J. T. Blake&#8217;s Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Myrone, Martin. \u201cBlake\u2019s Unruly Art History: The Case of the 1809 Exhibition.\u201d Interfaces: Image-Texte-Langage, no. 30, 2010, pp. 7\u201320. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3406\/inter.2010.1368.<\/p>\n<p>Rowland, Christopher. Blake and the Bible. Yale University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Solkin, David H., editor. Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780\u20131836. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, Aileen. \u201c\u2018Sr Joshua and His Gang\u2019: William Blake and the Royal Academy.\u201d Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, 1989, pp. 75\u201395. JSTOR, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/3817552.<\/p>\n<p>Will, Frederic. \u201cBlake\u2019s Quarrel with Reynolds.\u201d The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 15, no. 3, 1957, pp. 340\u201349. 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