Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job

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Among Blake's finest works: 21 watercolors interpreting the great biblical book and its theme of unmerited suffering. Also presented here are 11 additional watercolors, plus 28 black-and-white illustrations, including 21 extraordinary engravings based on the watercolors. All reproduced from a rare, limited facsimile edition published by The Pierpont Morgan Library. New introductory essay. 60 illustrations.

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Hevenly Images .......2004-08-20

Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job makes me want to take a Bible study course, just to learn as much as I can about the compelling sketches so beautifully printed on the pages of this eye-catching book. Each lovely oversized page of this book depicts a Scripture episode found the Biblical Book of Job, all of them worth meditating on. I am particularly impressed by the images Blake paints of God, who appears consistently benevolent even in the face of Satan. This book creates fascinating imagery, painted by a man whose life was, apparently, somewhat fixated on this particular subject. Blake painted these images sometime in the early 19th century, but they are still contemporary and memorable. I really love this book for its artistic interest and as a subject for an art history course.

A book that changed my life.......2000-11-07

I was shown a copy of this book 25 years ago. Blake's art transformed my world. I have been a student of Blake ever since. I still go back to this book often. This book, in a few pages, gave me an entry into Blake's system.

Encounter With the Self: A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 22.)

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Encounter With the Self: A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 22.)
Edward F. Edinger
Manufacturer: Inner City Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 091912321X

William Blake Illustrations of the Book of Job: Illustrations of the Book of Job (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

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William Blake Illustrations of the Book of Job: Illustrations of the Book of Job (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
Malcolm Cormack , and William Blake
Manufacturer: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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ASIN: 0917046498

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Illustrations Of The Book Of Job
William Blake
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1428643753

BLAKE'S JOB: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB

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BLAKE'S JOB: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB
William (Damon, S. Foster, Intro & Commentary) Blake
Manufacturer: Brown University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S8FQLC

Blake's Job: William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job

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Blake's Job: William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job
William Blake
Manufacturer: University Press of New England
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0874512417

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22 engravings reproduced from proofs of the first edition and interpreted by a renowned Blake scholar.

Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, With Reproductions of the Illustrations: A Study,

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Don't fall for it.
First Analysis of the Symbolism of Blake's Job Illustrations

Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, With Reproductions of the Illustrations: A Study,
Joseph Hartley Wicksteed
Manufacturer: Haskell House Pub Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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A thoroughly documented rigorously researched analysis of Blake's conception of the Biblical allegory of the just man whose faith in God is tested by numerous calamities. ILLUS.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

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Don't fall for it........2004-02-19

A great book, textwise, but I was hoping "library binding" might mean good reproductions. I was honored to see these prints in person a few months back and have been looking for some worthy reproductions in a book. I was really hoping they would be here, but these prints are worse than those which appear in the cheap Dover books.
Not worth the money at all. Frustrating!

First Analysis of the Symbolism of Blake's Job Illustrations.......2003-10-06

Because this is the first analysis of Blake's symbolism, it is in all likelihood the most cited. All works that follow either build on this study or comment upon it.

Blake's vision of the book of Job,: With reproductions of the illustrations;

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Blake's vision of the book of Job,: With reproductions of the illustrations;
Joseph Hartley Wicksteed
Manufacturer: E.P. Dutton & co
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008564FW

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The Book of Job
John Harry Schwarz
Manufacturer: Schwarz
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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The Human Face of God
Kathleen Raine
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0500233349

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Best sketches of windows, valances, curtain headings and blinds, etc. Inspiring ideas for for any room of your home.

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The Bed Sketchbook
Wendy Baker
Manufacturer: redwood books
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Window and Bed Sketchbook 2: Wendy Baker's Illustrated Book of Designs for Curtains/Drapes and Bed Treatments

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Window and Bed Sketchbook 2: Wendy Baker's Illustrated Book of Designs for Curtains/Drapes and Bed Treatments
Wendy Baker
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ASIN: 0954975855

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This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

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Good art, bad story, mixed whole........2007-07-11

Jimmy Corrigan looks great, but thats about as far as it goes, and it seems that the phrase "all style and no substance" was coined just for this book, but I also have personal reasons for disliking the story. Well, what do I think of the book? I'll try and break this down sensibly.

Artistically, it's done very well, and the drawing is intricate, detailed, and pleasing to the eye. It portrays the cold, wintry, emotionally detached feelings that the story itself wants to convey, but fails to. In fact, the art itself conveys the feelings and meaning of the story better than the dialogue does. I love the layouts, the intricate nature of it all, and the attention to detail. Ware is good at capturing the feeling of the various time periods and environments the story takes the reader to using imagery, color, and style.

But you can't judge a book by its cover, or a graphic novel by only it's art, and this is where Jimmy Corrigan runs in to trouble. I just didn't like the story, mostly because I couldn't realate to it or find myself invested in it. I think it's largely personal, but there are some more objective issues. First, the personal issues;

So much of the story is about alienation, absentee fathers and cold parents, social awkwardness, and so forth. I just can't relate to this stuff. I've always had a good relationship with both my parents, I don't act like a deer in headlights when someone tries to talk to me, and I don't spend ten minutes trying to figure out how to do something simple. For this reason, the story seems so unusual to me and I just don't find any connection between myself or any of the characters. Jimmmy's dad, despite his occasional racist quips and goofy attitude, and his adopted daughter, are the only characters that I did not find completely irritating.

To me, Jimmy seems to have no real personality, and his reactions to the situations he finds himself in just baffle me. Perhaps there's some exagerration in his personality compared to whatever the real-life equivalent of Jimmy is supposed to be, but I still find his behavior completely unrealistic and baffling. This is one of the things that kept me from enjoying the book, as I could never find any sympathy for Jimmy because he just seemed so infuriatingly stupid. The story would have perhaps had more depth if Jimmy was supposed to be autistic, or mentally handicapped, or something else like that. As it is, I just fail to see why he behaves in the manner that he does, sitting, staring, speaking in grunts and half sentences, and so forth.

Beyond the characters, what about the story itself?

Jimmys reunion with his father is an okay template for a story, but its obvious that its something the reader is supposed to be very emotionally invested in, but I couldn't get drawn in to it. I think ware takes it somewhat for granted that not everyone else has the same experiences with alienation and social awkwardness as him, and regardless, Jimmy is a poor attempt at a realistic portrayal of social awkwardness and lonliness.

The flashback stories to the turn of the century are decent enough. I didn't like many of those characters either, but Ware gives the stories a distinct feel and character all their own.

All in all, this book gets 5 stars for the technique, the art, and the style, but 1 star for the actual content. So, that evens it out to three stars.

Is this book a masterpiece? Not by a longshot. I think there are probably a lot of stunted manchildren in the comics world, especially the "alternative" comics world, who would relate to this story and find themselves in tears at the end, but this story is far from having a universal appeal.

Ware's other work is far superior to this, especially the Rusty Brown stories, which effectively portray a gamut of emotions and issues acorss somewhat generational lines in a way Jimmy Corrigan utterly fails to do, while at the same time giving the reader fuly developed, sympathetic characters. (Well, maybe not sympathetic, per se, but I found myself much more concerned with what would happen to Rusty Brown than I ever did Jimmy Corrigan.)

So, if you want some high quality work by ware, go for the Acme Novelty Library books.

If you want themes of alienation, analyses of social interactions, and observations on life, try box Offfice Poison or Ghost World, both of which are far more satisfying, not nearly as inaccesibly personal, and not even a tenth as pretentious.

As far as comic masterpieces in general go, Dave Sim's Cerebus beats anything Ware has ever offered up.

This book is a good read for the art and method, and its a good read just to be familiar with what everyone else is talking about. But the story is not going to appeal to everyone.

Meh.......2007-04-25

I guess I can see why people are so into this. It depends on what you like, really. I mean, it's not bad by any standard. The art is good and goes with the ultra depressing tone of the book. It's just not really the type of art that I personally can get really into. I just felt that with all the super positive reviews that are out there there ought to be one written from the other point of view. I didn't hate this book by any means. I just didn't love it. Or really even like it. It bored me and worse than that, it put me in a bad mood. I understand that it's supposed to be real and about this super awkward, alienated sad little man, but it seems to me that there is a lot of reality that I don't really want to have chronicled and put into a 400 page book. I just ended up not really caring a whole lot about the characters. So if you don't want something that is very slow paced and depressing in tone and somber, then don't get this book.

Get it get it get it--in hardcover.......2007-02-16

First, the negative: As another customer reviewer has already said, the paperback edition is poorly bound. Tragic, but true. I ignored this warning and saved myself a few bucks...and after less than a week, my copy is falling apart. I've never seen such a great book put together with such useless glue. Get the hardcover edition.

The other thing about the paperback edition is that sometimes you'll need a magnifying glass to take it all in; things get tight! I was squinting and straining more than was comfortable. (I don't know if this is true for other editions or not.)

Now, the positive: Chris Ware has figured out a visual language that is all his own, as far as I know. It might take you a few dozen pages to get the hang of how to read this book (especially if, like me, you're not too experienced with reading graphic novels), but you will. I know that there are "rules" to the way his dense panels work, for example, and I have learned how to read them in the right order, pretty fluently. But I couldn't explain it--you'll just have to figure it out, which of course is part of the fun in itself. You'll also see that there are rules about color and text--these are also surprising and ingenious, but once grasped become intuitive.

The plot could hardly be simpler. (Repressed, lonely guy gets abrupt call from estranged father, meets father for Thanksgiving holiday. I'll say no more than that.) But there's lots and lots going on; Ware manages to delve into all kinds of issues. Race and ethnicity, Chicago history, Freudian sexual conundrums, the desolation of modern American architecture...You really get a sense of the author's interests and passions.

I'm not sure this is a book everyone on the planet needs to read. But if you've done enough digging to find out about it and are at all interested in graphic novels, do not miss this. It's a real mindjob I can't wait to read again and again.

disjointed storytelling at its best.......2007-02-11

After I showed my cousin a story I had written, he gave me this book. He said it was an example of how a disjointed storytelling style can still deliver a satisfying story when it's done right. He gave me the book with the caveat that it gets a bit depressing. I can handle pessimistic stories, but with all the quoted praise flanking an enigmatic schematic that my cousin says is an overview of the entire book in the opening pages, I did wonder what someone so talented and recognized could find to be pessimistic about. The story's bleak dark humour, unannounced time shifts, and sections set in the late 1800s made me feel like I was reading William Faulkner in comic book form. It can be quite hard to follow at times, but it's such a mundane story that I wouldn't have had it any other way, and as with Faulkner, the beauty of the pages that caused me to have a "WTF?" moment was usually enough that I was motivated to go back and try to figure out what had happened, although I won't pretend I understood all of it, and it's too depressing for me to want to reread any time soon. One minor gripe is that for such a demanding comic book, there's a weird tendency in the more lucid parts to over explain, sometimes for the sake of humour, but sometimes stating the obvious whereas there are much harder to understand things that Chris Ware assumed the reader was smart enough to puzzle out. This was weird, and bugged me a bit in some of the flashback sections. Otherwise this is very impressive, and if I ever do something as good as this in prose fiction, I'll be very happy and probably not able to write anything as dark as this graphic novel.

Wonderfully depressing.......2007-01-11

The art in this book is quite subtle, striking only later at how detailed the architecture is in contrast to the seemingly simple characters portrayed. This is one of those wonderful instances in which you find yourself feeling almost embarrassed to be looking at lives laid so bare. The situations, while arguably mundane, just seem so REAL.

Jimmy Corrigan: El Chico mas Lindo del Mundo (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Spanish Edition)

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Great spanish edition

Jimmy Corrigan: El Chico mas Lindo del Mundo (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Spanish Edition)
Chris Ware
Manufacturer: Public Square Books
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One of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Chris Ware's epic story traces the lives of four generations of lonely, emotionally impaired everymen against the backdrop of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of the twentieth century. Winner of the American Book Award in 2001.

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Great spanish edition .......2007-04-10

The translation of Chris Ware's biggest hit is good. I have the original book and noticed some color variations. Subtle differences with the tone of several pages. I'm mexican and only when I read this spanish version could discover a lot of things that I never noticed.

So I recommend this edition.

Acme Novelty Library 14 Jimmy Corrigan or the Smartest Kid on Earth.

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Acme Novelty Library 14 Jimmy Corrigan or the Smartest Kid on Earth.
Chris Ware
Manufacturer: Fanta-graphics
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PHACVU

Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth Issue Six

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Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth Issue Six
Chris Ware
Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J2O1AO

Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth: Acme Novelty Library Issue Six (Acme Novelty Library, Six)

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Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth: Acme Novelty Library Issue Six (Acme Novelty Library, Six)

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Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000GHK1ZQ

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Comic book/soft cover. Cover says Fall 1995.

Seeding your graphic literature library.(graphic literature)(City of Stones)(Buddha)(Epileptic)(Ice Haven)(Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth)(Julius ... An article from: World Literature Today

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Seeding your graphic literature library.(graphic literature)(City of Stones)(Buddha)(Epileptic)(Ice Haven)(Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth)(Julius ... An article from: World Literature Today
Andrew D. Arnold
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Release Date: 2007-09-27

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Jimmy Corrigan-Smartest Kid On Earth
Chris Ware
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6QK6Y

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In this irreverent Chick's Guide to Turning 30, Julie Tilsner guides readers through the five stages of fear, denial, bargaining, the countdown, and the great beyond. She also offers some tips on affordable ways to cope with the pressure--including "group bitch" sessions and subscriptions to the Good Vibrations catalog--and how to deal with related anxieties about your professional and romantic destiny.

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Just when a woman's learned how to wind her way through a life of temp jobs and commitment-phobic boyfriends, she has to face the biggest nightmare yet--turning 30. What with everything on that "To Do Before 30" list still left undone and and the biological clock ticking all too loudly, even the most sensible chicks come a little unglued when their fourth decade is upon them.

Luckily, humor writer Julie Tilsner is here to help. A Business Week editor who ditched New York City and a successful career for a kibbutz in Israel when the big day closed in on her, Tilsner recounts her experience and those of many other women in this pithy, insightful, and uproarious self-help book.

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Light-weight life saver - perfect bath reading.......2004-05-27

I gave this to my major fox babe, SaraJ, for *her* 30th along with the Fruit Bats' "Mouthfuls" CD.

Thanks to Amazon's amazing 'Search Inside the Book' ability, I was able to confirm 29's total suitability and silliness as a gift from sexy Sara's 'Jerk Official Reserve Date' (JORD), which is my discreet rôle when her Davy's not around or when he's committed some adorable gaffe that calls for exile and a strategic pout.

Title apart, which got me a biff round the ear for dubbing Sara a 'chick' (voluptuous vixens are *never* chicks: they spring fully formed from the womb as major babes), the book is humorous enough to read snippets from aloud after the second bottle of Dom Perignon. Or, à deux, over a jug of Bloody Mary in a cosy Badedas-drenched bath.

It also helps if, as does Sara, the recipient looks a sprightly 25, behaves half that age, and has a star-struck chappie in tow oblivious to *how* many candles sputter on the gâteau.

Most of the embittered crones *I* help across the big three-oh threshold have had all humor squeezed from them by constant dumpings or the screams of toy boys as they flee the haggard spectacle. For such crypt-keepers, Ms Tilsner's ace volume will only tip them sooner into the pit of has-been misery and despair.

A splendid oeuvre that I must stock up on, not just for future 30th birthday babes but as the perfect goading gift for mummified creatures already past it.

entertaining and poignant - 30 does not = expiration date!.......2003-07-24

What this book isn't: 1) something you would take seriously. 2) something to consult if you are a selfhelp fan. 3) something you won't get if you never moved out of your parents' house.

Turning 30 for me was a breeze; it was 31 that freaked me out. As a chronic bargainer (Chapter 3), experiencing the joys of our current economy (Chapter 7), I personally enjoyed this book. I think it's wry, witty, has a touch of Ab-Fab to it, and made me want to have a drink and read it in the tub.

If you are closer in your level of seriousness to some of the reviewers here, don't buy this book. Otherwise, kick back and enjoy the read!

Funny but unreal.......2003-07-01

I understand that it is a book of humor.But first, this book assumes that the mayority of women turning 30 is single. Second, it also assumes that if you have a stablished career and a confortable financial position achieved by hard work before turning 30, something's wrong with you.
I agree with some reviewers that the targeted readers are teenagers or those who have not passed yet their teen's years.
Please do not take this book seriously.
Even though it's funny there are much better funny things to do with your time.

Amateur writing.......2003-02-03

My suggestion to other readers is - do not waste your time or money on this book! When the big 30 began to approach I ordered the book from Amazon. I couldn't wait to tear into it. Unfortunately, I was very, very disappointed. The best part of this book is the cover, and that's no lie. I ordered this book thinking I would get good information and it would be funny. Instead all I learned was that you can string together pages and pages of drivel. With the constant hysteria about turning 30 in this book, it will make you have a mental breakdown. The book feeds into this false culture of fear. Also, the book reads like a college term paper - a bad college term paper.

DULL, TRITE, AND NOT FUNNY.......2002-12-16

I thought this was going to be a funny book but it was very stupid and neurotic. I seriously don't know this book's target audience - maybe junior high school girls (naw, they're too cool for this ...).

29 & Counting a Chicks Guide To Turning 30

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29 & Counting a Chicks Guide To Turning 30
Julie Tilsner
Manufacturer: NTC PUBLISHING @ GROUP
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q2Z5XY

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