Great article on Sotheby's upcoming auction of previously unknown William Blake watercolors
here. They're going to take the collection, break it up and sell it to the highest bidder. Despicable.
Blake was one of those poets who really excited me in school and whom I've never gone back to. The fact that Blake saw his visual work as a complement to his literary work, that the two are essentially inseparable makes him, in some ways, the world's first filmmaker, or at least the first person to craft both image and word together under the title of "artist".
Scott McCloud might disagree, or not. Anyrate, the Times article remind me that I really need to pick up a good copy of Blake's
illuminated works.
