The Eternal Delight of the Imagination. Idea of the Imagination in the Romanticism, above all in William Blake

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Roger Ferrer Ventosa

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Starting at the end of the eighteenth century, in the European culture took place a transformation of the concepts of reason and imagination, with the latter being a privileged ability of the human mind for the romantics. In this text, it will be shown examples of the increase in the appreciation of that ability, whose apotheosis can be observed in William Blake’s original aesthetics. The aforesaid artist provides an example of a tendency that was common during various decades, a romantic attitude of which he is the prime example; it will also talk about his influences, neoplatonic thinkers and mystic occultists such as Böhme and Swedenborg.

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Roger Ferrer Ventosa, Universidad de Lisboa

Universitat de Girona, Departamento de Historia e Historia del arte, doctor en el grupo de investigación Teorías del arte contemporáneo.