Aubrey Beardsley

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Art, Victorian
ISBN : HARVARD:FL469Z

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Aubrey Beardsley by Arthur Symons Pdf

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547403449

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The Art of Aubrey Beardsley by Arthur Symons Pdf

The Art of Aubrey Beardsley is a study about English artist and illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, written by British editor and critic Arthur Symons. The book includes biographical essay and numerous illustrations by the artist. Beardsley's drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler.

Author : Hiroshi Unno
Publisher : Pie Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 4756252885

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Aubrey Beardsley by Hiroshi Unno Pdf

This 240-page book, Aubrey Beardsley: The Decadent Magician of the Light and the Darkness, reveals the core of the artist Aubrey Beardsley through more than 180 of his art works, compiled under the supervision of Hiroshi Unno, a critic and a writer who has contributed to many books on the fin-de-siècle. Aubrey Beardsley was an illustrator who was best known for his drawings in black ink filled with erotic and decadent features. He was born in Brighton, England on August 21, 1872. The Victorian era in which Aubrey lived was gripped by a strict, rigid, conservative morality. The society was male dominated and forced women to be modest. However, in Brighton, which developed into a seaside resort for the upper classes full of entertainment, people were relieved from such strictness. Brighton was also a breeding ground of a sense of liberty in all things, and sexuality was no exception. In other words, it can be said that the Victorian era was a chaotic era during which open-minded thoughts on sexuality and strict, male-dominated morality coexist. Aubrey's mother, Ellen, was a person who embodied that Brighton atmosphere. Although she worried about raising her son in such an environment, she also taught literature and music to Aubrey. It was lucky for him to spend his youth with Ellen, and Brighton definitely became the basis of his talent for grasping the oddness of society in this era. Aubrey moved to London when he was 15 years old. When the Beardsley family left Brighton, Aubrey lost the feeling of liberty he had been raised with, but at the same time was able to develop his talent by interacting with Edward Burne-Jones, Oscar Wilde, and William Morris, the artists that colored this period. Aubrey, whose talent blossomed in London, began to offer his illustrations to many literary and theatrical outlets. The most famous examples are his illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" from One Thousand and One Nights, the French magazine Yellow Book, and the play Lysistrata. The illustrations for these literary and theatrical artworks had also been drawn by many other illustrators, but Aubrey's work was totally different from anyone else's. The seductive motifs that he drew, using only black ink, such as a woman with a fearless smile, a gentleman with disdainful contempt, and figures with extremely exaggerated genitals, all express Aubrey's incomparable talent for grasping the chaos and unsettled atmosphere of the period. The rebellious nature and imagery of his illustrations were often controversial. People even called him "the Devil's younger brother". But there is no doubt that he was a star of the age, which is evident from the many influential illustrators who came after him who were influenced by Aubrey's work, such as Harry Clarke, Alastair, John Austin, Kay Nielsen and George Barbier. Unfortunately Aubrey's genius illuminated the end of the nineteenth century, the era of fin-de-siècle decadence, only briefly before fading away, when his tragically short life ended after just twenty five years. How did the rebellious, yet refined, monochrome artworks drawn by "the Devil's younger brother" come about? Was his life simply the art itself? This book is a gem that presents the artwork that is most identified with "Beardsley" himself, revealing both the artist and the idea, through his life and his masterpieces.

Author : Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486135731

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Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley Pdf

Rich selection of 170 boldly executed black-and-white illustrations ranging from illustrations for Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Balzac's La Comedie Humaine to magazine cover designs, book plates, and more.

Author : Aubrey Beardsley,Arthur Symons
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015041915276

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The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley,Arthur Symons Pdf

Author : Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : 0838668844

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The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley Pdf

The first work to attempt a complete collection of his letters, some highlighted by sketches on the backs. There are several photographs of his family and friends, and reproductions of several of his most famous drawings.

Author : Jan Marsh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500480595

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Aubrey Beardsley by Jan Marsh Pdf

A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to the work of Aubrey Beardsley, one of the defining artists of the Art Nouveau style. Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) was only twenty-five when he died from tuberculosis, but in his short life he established a reputation as one of the most accomplished—and controversial—illustrators of his day. Astonishingly, all his work was created in the course of only six years, yet his contribution to the visual language of Art Nouveau was profound; today, his work is instantly recognizable for its use of black ink and flowing lines on white paper, along with its erotically charged subject matter. Not all his work was sexually provocative—much was satirical, attacking the decadent mores of the time—but some was and remains shocking, taking its stylistic inspiration from Japanese shunga and Greek vase painting and its thematic inspiration from mythology, history, poetry, and drama. This beautifully designed, accessibly priced book offers a wealth of illustrations by Beardsley, and introduces his exquisitely crafted drawings and prints to a new audience. Including a fascinating text by Jan Marsh, Aubrey Beardsley brings together a carefully curated selection of works from Beardsley’s tragically short but highly productive life.

Author : Catherine Slessor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 0753703424

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The Art of Aubrey Beardsley by Catherine Slessor Pdf

This work is a celebration of Beardsley's work, reproducing hundreds of examples of the artist's disturbing and unique synthesis of abstraction and reality. The book also analyzes the cultural transformations that influenced Beardsley's vision.

Author : Emma Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198187327

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Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s by Emma Sutton Pdf

Sutton presents a study of the influence of Richard Wagner on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). She explores the role of Wagnerism within British culture of the 1890's, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and the decadent movement.

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000093235426

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The Savoy by Arthur Symons Pdf

An illustrated monthly.

Author : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571304653

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Black and White by Brigid Brophy Pdf

'[Beardsley's] vision is permanently that of a child lying in bed watching his mother dress for a dinner-party. His fantasy hangs this here, tries the effect of that there: everything is a jewel, and everything is a sexual organ. He is allured, yet afraid to touch: driven back on a cold minuteness of detailed attention, and yet passionately curious, with the emotional and involved curiosity children give to sex.' Brigid Brophy first published her study of 'the most intensely and electrically erotic artist in the world' in 1968, at the height of her own powers and in the moment of a notable revival of interest - both scholarly and pop-cultural (amid 'the dandified realm of Carnavy Street') - in Beardsley's work. An infant prodigy, Beardsley retained through the brief years of his adult life the peculiar genius of a precocious child, and Brophy, well-versed in Freudian analyses, adroitly points out the polymorphous perversity of his pictures - that perversity, coupled with his inimitable graphic/monochromatic signature, accounting for why Beardsley, however 'high-baroque rococo' his style, has remained endlessly modern. Black and White is illustrated by 44 reproductions and augmented by a detailed chronology.

Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843680726

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Aubrey Beardsley by Robert Ross Pdf

Originally published: London, John Lane; New York, John Lane Comapny, 1909. with a new introduction.

Author : Joan Navarre
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781581120363

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The Publishing History of Aubrey Beardsley's Compositions for Oscar Wilde's Salome by Joan Navarre Pdf

This study claims that scholars need to examine all twenty-seven English illustrated editions of Wilde's and Beardsley's Salomë to understand whether Beardsley's compositions do, or do not, illustrate Wilde's words. For the last one hundred years scholars have addressed the aesthetic function of Beardsley's compositions (whether or not Beardsley's compositions illustrate Wilde's words), and each scholar sees something different: Beardsley's compositions are "irrelevant" to Wilde's words; Beardsley's compositions are "relevant" to Wilde's words; Beardsley's compositions are both "irrelevant" and "relevant." What is at issue here is that this traditional dance of signification (scholars' interpretations of the aesthetic function of Beardsley's compositions) relies upon an interpretive strategy that disavows the history of textual transmissions. To put this another way, what scholars "see" depends upon the particular English illustrated edition(s) they read. Beardsley's compositions are physical objects conditioned by a physical setting--i.e., the components of total book design. Yet, for many, the visible appears invisible. The motivation for this study arises from previously unexamined phenomena--the genesis and textual transmission of Beardsley's compositions for Salomë (1894-1994). As historical textual scholarship, this study uses the methodologies central to descriptive bibliography: the English illustrated editions of Wilde's and Beardsley's Salomë are treated as socially constructed physical objects. Binding, format, and paper are a few of the signifying systems described. Specifically, this investigation draws upon the model presented by Philip Gaskell in A New Introduction to Bibliography. The necessary tasks include: transcribing the title-page; analyzing the format; examining the appearance of the binding; detailing the kind of paper used; and noting other information, such as titles. As the centenary of Wilde's and Beardsley's Salomë commences, this is the opportune time to trace the publishing history of Beardsley's compositions, to update existing descriptive bibliographies, and to turn to an empirical method for a socialized model of literary production.

Author : Aubrey Beardsley,Henry Currie Marillier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101075998722

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The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley,Henry Currie Marillier Pdf

Author : Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486997704

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Beardsley Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley Pdf

Beardsley electrified the public with his exotic, sensual drawings. These 221 seductive black-and-white renderings provide graphic designers with a rich selection -- from cover designs and title pages to poster art and headpieces.