Danny Hayward Reviews William Blake

Poet Danny Hayward finds depth in brevity in his review of the William Blake show at the Tate Britain for Artforum. "Trunks can twist and chests be pierced in Blake's pictures, and arms can reach painfully outward," writes Hayward, "but the 'hard and wiry line of rectitude' enclosing them remains unfashionably unbroken." More:

Tate’s comprehensive display of three hundred works from across Blake’s life should serve as a historical reminder that these thick, sensuous outlines of the body still have better fucking things to do than stand sentry in the metaphorical imagination of this or that fascist regime. 

Read on here. If you're in London, William Blake is on until February 2020.