The C.G. Jung Bookstore presents:
The Crooked Roads of Genius:
Blake and Goya
Rosalind G. Wholden

William Blake (1757-1827) and Francisco Goya (1746-1828) were visionary artists who mined the gold of the Imagination against the surface values of the Age of Reason. Globalization, conformity of information, and loss of meaning are today’s dreary residue from the "Enlightenment."  In studying the lives and imagery of these prophetic artists, we will see Imagination speaking truth to power. Their genius startles us with the psyche’s compensatory gifts and emboldens our efforts in a period of Shadow.

Blake wrote in 1820: Art Degraded, Imagination Denied, War Governed the Nations.

This lecture will be illustrated with slides.

Rosalind G. Wholden, Lecturer Emerita, University of California, Santa Barbara, taught at the College of Creative Studies where she developed a curriculum combining art, literature, mythology and Jung’s work. She spoke last summer on “Dionysos: From Greece to Graceland.”