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  Mind-forg'd Manacles: William Blake and Slavery (Paperback) By (author) David Bindman, By (author) Darryl Pinckney

  

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  Short Description for Mind-forg'd ManaclesFor William Blake (1757-1827), the idea of slavery was fundamental to his art and writing. Containing over 60 reproductions from Blake's illuminated books, watercolours and engravings, this book includes an essay by curator and leading Blake scholar David Bindman. It also includes an essay by Darryl Pinckney which explores blacks and literacy.
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  • Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
  • Published: 01 July 2007
  • Format: Paperback 148 pages
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  • Categories: General | Art History | Art Treatments & Subjects | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Slavery & Abolition Of Slavery
  • ISBN 13: 9781853322594 ISBN 10: 1853322598

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• For William Blake (1757-1827), the idea of slavery was fundamental to his art and writing. He was fervently opposed to slavery and bitterly contemptuous of the forces in Britain that tried to prolong it. But for Blake slavery was also a mental state. To have limited perceptions, to pursue materialistic ends, to set oneself above others, to follow conventional religion or science was to be enslaved and to be held with 'mind-forg'd manacles' of one's own making. In Blake's art, many of his most dramatic and complex images show a confrontation between the forces of repression and those seeking freedom. With over 60 vivid reproductions from Blake's illuminated books, watercolours and engravings, "Mind-forg'd Manacles" includes an essay by curator and leading Blake scholar David Bindman. Bindman examines the following themes in Blake's poetry and visual art: the cruelties of slavery; The Little Black Boy and other black boys; slavery as restricted vision; chaining desire; and, throwing off the chains. A second essay by writer Darryl Pinckney explores blacks and literacy, ownership of the word, and the written language as proof of one's humanity, with a focus on eighteenth century black writers such as Sancho, Wheatley, Equiano.