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Exhibition Opening Conversation: William Blake — Artist, Poet, Maker, and Radical Thinker at the Yale Center for British Art
Join exhibition cocurators Elizabeth Wyckoff and Timothy Young to learn more about William Blake: Burning Bright, which showcases the YCBA’s impressive collection of works by William Blake (1757–1827). What made the artist and poet unique? The curators provide an overview of Blake’s career as presented in the exhibition and then focus on how he defied the norms to create the highly original “illuminated books” at the core of this show. Blake’s invention of a method for printing both image and text from a single copper plate resulted in an unprecedented fusion of art. Intimate in scale and created to be experienced in book form, the colorful pages draw the reader into Blake’s distinctive worldview. Richard Brodhead, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English Emeritus and Interim Director at the Yale Center for British Art, moderates the program.
William Blake, Jerusalem
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm; Thursdays from 10 am to 7 pm (September to June); and Sundays from 11 am to 5 pm. The museum is closed on Mondays
