september, 2017

201723sepAll Day11marWilliam Blake and the Age of AquariusBlock Museum of Art40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2140

Event Details

The exhibition brings together artists who used Blake’s lyrics as titles, experimented with printing techniques and innovative combinations of image and text and cited Blake's worldview in letters, diaries and essays. Artists and musicians as diverse as Diane Arbus, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Stanley William Hayter, Jimi Hendrix, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Maurice Sendak, The Doors and The Fugs will be featured, united by the influence of Blake on their work. An early section of the exhibition will focus on artists working in the mid-1940s who discovered Blake's unique voice in such poems as "The Tyger" and “The Shepherd” and drew inspiration for their own work from his ideas. These will include Sam Francis, Stanley William Hayter, Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Charles Seliger, Robert Smithson and Clyfford Still among others.  Source

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Time

September 23 (Saturday) - March 11 (Sunday)

Location

Northwestern Block Museum of Art

40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2140

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