Time after time say welcome to this going underground special edition when the fight for the commons as the odds on favorite to become next u. K. Prime minister jeremy cooled and promises an immediate Nationalization Program we investigate the battle against inclusion of the labor Party Advisor in a revolutionary struggle in the bow and we go to london state britain wont cover the inequality fight a revolutionary so who posted jacobin up just William Blake the author of englands unofficial anthem jerusalem but before we speak historian putin about about his new book red round blue book burning its titled derived from William Blakes poem visions of the daughters of albion we go to the tate britain where we began our interview with curator Martin Maroney by asking him about that this is a big exhibition is over 300 in the exhibition by plate his prints his drawings and also his illuminated books and with a series of books in the 79 to this revolutionary decade with the revolution in fran
Well people he could if he wanted to or theres something going on between text and images albeit being a revolutionary jacobin symbol as well of this being that interpretation which is which. Are open to interpretation and certainly theyve been radical sentiments and there are radical present radical symbolism in sentiments in place and were going to be talking later in the program about a friend of. The Great British war hero. Hes a radical William Blake put at the same term theres a painting of nelson here a picture of nelson here showing less sympathy for radicalism argument really key exhibits. For the exhibition dealing with blakes one man show 1819 the key exhibits which weve got here are allegorical paintings of nelson and the Prime Minister pitt and theyre both shown as figures guiding biblical monsters and by. In chaos on the destruction of the world thats very we know that blake was not a tory we know from voting records that he voted for the wake of the big opposition and se
Kind of key exhibits. For the exhibition dealing with blakes one man show 1819 the key exhibits weve got here are allegorical paintings of admiral nelson and the Prime Minister pitt and theyre both shown as figures guiding biblical monsters and bring chaos on the and destruction to the world thats very true we know that blake was not a tory we know from voting records that he voted for the wake of the big opposition and 74 when he had the chance and he wasnt a fan of war he was a great pacifist and his opponent of war so these pictures are very intriguing quite complex and they seem to celebrate these National Figures and what seems to be going on is that hes at presenting the idea of nelson war leader guiding the political monster whos going to bring chaos and destruction out of that there will be some kind of spiritual rebirth and whether you know whether you see that as a positive thing or a negative thing i think really kind of depends on your. Especially not the american evangelic
Interview with curator Martin Maroney by asking him about that poem this is a big exhibition is over 300 words in the exhibition by plate his prints his drawings and also his illuminated books and with a series of books in the 79. 00 to this revolutionary decade with the revolution in france and the fallout still of the loss of america in britain he created a series of us including visions of the daughters of albion europe prophecy america prophecy which are in the exhibition and which show him translating clint day events into these visionary terms using his inventive characters and representing the kind of great power struggles within europe he wants to work so hard on preparing an exhibition like this and be very aware of how both the left and the right of politics try to claim blake for their own many people know the last night of the proms the singing of jerusalem what is what emerges in this exhibition yet as his politics now at a late. During the fascinating figure and he has be
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