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Mind-forg'd manacles : William Blake and slavery / David Bindman ; with an essay by Darryl Pinckney.

Title
Mind-forg'd manacles : William Blake and slavery / David Bindman ; with an essay by Darryl Pinckney.
Author
Bindman, David, 1940-
Publication
London : Hayward Gallery Publishing, Southbank Centre, 2007

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Additional Authors
  • Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827
  • Ferens Art Gallery
  • Burrell Collection
  • Whitworth Art Gallery
  • Hayward Gallery
Description
147 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm
Summary
"William Blake (1757-1827) was unusually aware of the horrors of slavery, which he knew about in detail from a book he illustrated. But slavery was to him not only a physical system but a mental state of restricted perception that he called 'mind-forg'd manacles'. Mental enslavement and its opposite, freedom, gave rise to his most dramatic and complex text and images. With over 60 vivid reproductions from Blake's illuminated books, watercolours and engravings in the British Museum, this volumes includes an essay by the curator, leading Blake scholar David Bindman on the theme of slavery in Blake's visual imagery, and another by novelist and literary critic Darryl Pinckney on Olaudah Equiano, an African former slave who campaigned for the abolition of slavery in Blake's time. This book commemorates both the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain, and the 250th anniversary of Blake's birth."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
William Blake and slavery
Subject
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827 > Exhibitions
  • Slavery in art > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Mind-forg'd manacles : William Blake and slavery', a Hayward Gallery Touring/British Museum Parnership UK exhibition held at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 7 April-20 May 2007, at the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 3 November, 2007-6 January 2008, and at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 26 January-6th April 2008.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Mind-forg'd manacles : William Blake and slavery / David Bindman -- "In my original free African state" / Darryl Pinckney -- The slave trade debate illustrated -- William Blake's printing technique -- Plates -- William Blake biography.
ISBN
  • 9781853322594
  • 1853322598
OCLC
  • 137248958
  • SCSB-10500279
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library