Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1974 - 8/31/1974

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


Visual Metaphor in the Illuminated Books of William Blake

FAIN: FT-11890-74

John W. Wright
Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)

To research newly discovered aspects of the composite, literary-pictorial, art of William Blake Illuminated Books. This project will approach Blake's designs through their technical basis in his etching techniques and through his distinctive uses of visual metaphor and emblems.