NEWSLETTER
TORONTO SYMPOSIUM
In connection with the Blake exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario 4 December 1982-6 February 1983, there will be a symposium on “William Blake’s Visual Languages.” On Friday, 4 February, at 8:00 pm, Northrop Frye (Univ. of Toronto) will speak on “William Blake’s Bible Illustrations” in the Medical Sciences Auditorium at the University of Toronto. The following day, from 9:30 am until 4:30 pm in the Activity Centre of the Art Gallery of Ontario, David Bindman (Westfield College, Univ. of London) will speak on “William Blake: Satire and Revelation”; Bo Ossian Lindberg (Univ. of Lund), on “Blake and the Minutest Particulars: Binding Media and Pigments in the Painting Technique of William Blake”; G.E. Bentley, Jr. (Univ. of Toronto), on “Blake and the Book Illustrators of His Time”; Robert N. Essick (Univ. of California, Riverside), on “Process and Meaning in Blake’s Illuminated Books”; Morton D. Paley (Univ. of California, Berkeley), on “The Apocalyptic Sublime”; and W.J.T. Mitchell (Univ. of Chicago), on “Blake’s Wond’rous Art of Writing.” For further information and registrations forms please contact the Scheduling Office, Education Services, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G4; telephone 416/977-0414.