| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Two years have been spent in examining the ways in which William Blake represented the idea of self-love in his poetry as well as in his visual art. Blake's visual art is conventionally examined independently of his verbal text, despite that the two mediums of art are inseparably combined in Blake's execution of art. Blake's poems that are actually interlined with illustrations, and I regard the two mediums of art as a form of composite art.
In my analysis of Blake's composite art, I focus upon the key idea "self-love." Having clarified what he meant by that idea against the eighteenth-century understanding of it, I examined how the idea was visualized in Blake's works, especially in his later illuminated works. Deformed human bodies that appear in his works from time to time represent, as I have clarified, the false self, which is personified as a Blakean character called "specter" or an executor of self-love.
I made use of digitized pictures that I made, with a computer program, from the facsimiles of Blake's illuminated works. The use of such digitized pictures was of great help for me to analyze details of fine prints by Blake.
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