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Welcome back to listeners to another bonus episode of Art Curious, featuring an interview with someone in the art world,

and recently we have been focusing on amazing authors who have been writing about artists and art

history. And today I am so excited to bring you an interview that I recently did via Zoom

with John Higgs about his recent book, William Blake versus the world. Poet, artist, and visionary,

William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition,

and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed, and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble

end in a pauper's grave, Blake now occupies a unique

position as an artist who unites and attracts people from all corners of society, a rare,

inclusive symbol of human identity. In William Blake versus the world, we return to a world of

riots, revolutions, and radicals, discussed movements from the

levelers of the 16th century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore

the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics, and comparative religion.

With 30 integrated illustrations throughout the book, William Blake versus the world,

is a beautiful, wild adventure into unfamiliar

territory and John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into

fascinating context. And although the journey begins with us trying to understand Blake,

we will ultimately discover that it is Blake who helps us to understand ourselves.

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