Performance

William Blake: Paradise Lost

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At The Morgan Library & Museum, “William Blake: Paradise Lost” considers the English poet, painter, and printmaker through the books and images he made to be read and seen as one. The exhibition places his self-published “prophetic” projects in context, tracing how text, line, and color build a private mythology shaped by politics, religion, and dissent. In New York, where Blake’s influence runs through modern illustration and countercultural art, this presentation reads like a quiet correction to his lifetime neglect. One clear takeaway is how deliberately he engineered the page as a complete artwork, not an accompaniment to literature.