William Blake Illuminates the Works of Melinda Camber Porter - Softcover

Robin Hamlyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963755226 ISBN 13: 9780963755223

Publisher: Blake Press, 2006

Synopsis

William Blake Illuminates the Works of Melinda Camber Porter by Robin Hamlyn, Senior Curator at Tate Britain with twenty paintings by Melinda Camber Porter, commemorates Robin Hamlyn’s lecture of the same name and the exhibition of the Luminous Bodies series of paintings by Melinda Camber Porter at the Jerwood Gallery, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University on November 2nd, 2004.

This book is an important contribution to art and art criticism of contemporary artists, women’s studies and those who appreciate William Blake and his paintings and writings.

About this title

About the Author:

Author:

Robin Hamlyn is Senior Curator, Tate Collections, for the period 1780–1860, at Tate Britain. He is a renowned Blake expert and has written and lectured widely on Blake and other 18th- and 19th-century British painters. He was the curator and coeditor of the catalogue of the major Blake exhibition at Tate Britain (2000-2001), which also traveled to the Metropolitan Museum in New York City He has also curated a number of Blake exhibitions at the Tate, and was the curator of a major Blake exhibition shown in Madrid and Barcelona in 1996.

Author and Artist:

Melinda Camber Porter, British writer, artist, journalist and filmmaker, died at the age of 55 from ovarian cancer in 2008. For over 25 years she resided at the Hotel Des Artistes in New York City where she worked constantly on her many creative film, writing and art projects, and married and raised her two children. Melinda was born in London and graduated from Oxford University and went to Paris as the cultural correspondent for The Times of London. Ms. Porter interviewed many of greatest filmmakers and writers of the last forty years. She often mixed her writing, painting, and film making in her creative projects - poems on paintings, plays with paintings and so on. She leaves as part of her legacy a vast body of creative works paintings, poems, writings, films, novels, plays and media pieces in English and French for the enjoyment of generations to come.

Review:

Hamlyn praises Melinda Camber Porter's imagination, her sense of touch and use of the line in her watercolors. He draws a comparison between Porter and Blake stating, "their works exemplify and illuminate the fearlessness that is part of the very essence of art."  --Mary Cummings, Southampton Press

About this edition

• Publisher: Blake Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0963755226
• ISBN 13: 9780963755223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40