Aubrey Beardsley [Illustré] [Anglais] [Relié]

Not since the early 1970s, when dorm room walls were covered with posters of their work, have the Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites of 19th-century England been so popular. This latest work on illustrator Aubrey Vincent Beardsley is the second in six months (Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography, LJ 2/1/99). Colvin, an art historian and limited-editions publisher, takes a different slant on Beardsley in this elaborately illustrated biography, looking at him through his art but also adding much on how the artist was viewed and remembered by friends and contemporaries. Beardsley died from tuberculosis at 25, yet in the six brief years that he worked he illustrated Wilde's Salome, Pope's The Rape of the Lock, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Johnson's Valpone. He was also the art editor of the influential serial The Yellow Book. His extraordinary work was noted for its sexual curves and erotic tone, elaborate borders, and initialsAa mixture of Oriental and Art Nouveau. With its numerous and excellent use of illustrations, this is a worthy companion to other Beardsley works. Highly recommended for all collections.AJoseph C. Hewgley, Nashville P.L.
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, illustrator and writer, was the most notorious and outstanding artist of the fin de siècle. His disturbing erotic drawings shocked the sensibilities of the Victorians and his friendship and collaboration with Oscar Wilde has secured his place in the pantheon of great artists of the 19th century. Jaques-Emile Blanche's portrait of Bearsley, his face 'like a silver hatchet', is the enduring image of this fabulously talented man who died at the age of just 25. Beardsley's most important illustrations were for Wilde's Salome, Popes The Rape of the Lock, The Lysistrata of Aristophanes and Jonson's Valpone. He was art editor of the hugely influential Yellow Book from which he was dismissed following the arrest of Wilde becoming thereafter the creative editor of the 'Savoy' magazine. He went on to write the highly erotic romance The Story of Venus and Tannhauser which was published in an unexpurgated version as Under the Hill. This extraordinary man created some of the most striking and enduring images of the last one hundred years. His influence on Oscar Wilde and his circle was profound and his achievements in such a short life is one of the great literary and artistic stories of the 19th century.

David Colvin is a man of many talents all of which he employs to the full. He lectures in the history of art; designs books for his own press, Cypher; designs costumes for the Mermaid Theatre and National Theatre; contributes photographs to the Architectual Association library and writes, mainly on the literary characters of the 19th century.