{"id":3836,"date":"2018-09-27T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2018-09-27T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:51:34","slug":"professor-richman-shares-insight-at-union-college-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/09\/27\/professor-richman-shares-insight-at-union-college-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Richman Shares Insight at Union College Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<strong>Leah Veldhuisen \u201919<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Associate Professor of English Jared Richman returned to his alma mater, Union College, to be the closing speaker at their Blake@Union exhibition on English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake. Richman has been studying Blake since his time at Union as an undergraduate, and continued the work throughout his master\u2019s and doctorate programs.<\/p>\n<p>He is also still engaged in studying William Blake, as he is currently researching and writing about a project on Blake\u2019s visionary works. The talk, Richman explains, \u201cexplored Blake\u2019s concept of America, which he used strategically over several decades as a political symbol in his poetry and printmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richman specifically focused on \u201cBlake\u2019s conception of art in politically volatile times, the notion of republican art generally, and Blake\u2019s enduring belief that art and poetry are vital components for a free and just society.\u201d He continues, \u201cI situated Blake\u2019s work alongside British radicals and reformers such as Thomas Paine and Richard Price and artists such as James Barry and James Gillray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CC students who know Richman will recognize his Blake expertise, as he teaches a class called Blake and the Idea of the Book with Printer of the Press Aaron Cohick. The class studies Blake\u2019s poetry, printmaking and painting, and spends time in the CC Print Shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Leah Veldhuisen \u201919 Last week, Associate Professor of English Jared Richman returned to his alma mater, Union College, to be the closing speaker at their Blake@Union exhibition on English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake. Richman has been studying Blake since his time at Union as an undergraduate, and continued the work throughout his master\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/09\/27\/professor-richman-shares-insight-at-union-college-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor Richman Shares Insight at Union College Conference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":3837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2018\/09\/RichmanConference.jpeg?fit=1000%2C935&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}