Le cas William Blake. beaux arts confront it as best they

confront it as best they can

Jean Paulhan

during his collages in the streets of Naples

to act on others is sometimes acquired over a lifetime

Le cas William Blake. beaux arts confront it as best theyThe most unusual and atypical of all, certainly. As if it were impossible and especially perilous to classify him here or there, under any label. Painter, draftsman, engraver, poet, William Blake (1757 1827) remains a true mystery. He is the man, or better still: the being of a work essentially nourished by biblical visions and prophecies, pertaining to a disconcerting mysticism and grandiose illuminations. Didn't he confide to his friend Flaxman: In