This is an image of Urizen who is the embodiment of conventional reason in the Mythology of William Blake, and is used to convey an example of technocratic repression, and is an important character in Blake’s opposition to a politic of empiricism and industrial power.
Will write more about William Blake later as am studying his work and considering his political ideology which existed in opposition to figures such as Lock and Newton .
Posted in Art work I am looking at., Mythology, Romanticism, William Blake, William Blake.
Tagged empiricism, Mythology, Reason, Romanticism, Urizen, William Blake
This is an image of Urizen who is the embodiment of conventional reason in the Mythology of William Blake, and is used to convey an example of technocratic repression, and is an important character in Blake’s opposition to a politic of empiricism and industrial power.
Will write more about William Blake later as am studying his work and considering his political ideology which existed in opposition to figures such as Lock and Newton .
Posted in Art Theory, Mythology, Romanticism, Study Notes, William Blake
Tagged empiricism, Industrial, Myth, Mythology, Technocracy, Urizen, William Blake
