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Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque

Author : Chris Snodgrass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034395783

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Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque by Chris Snodgrass Pdf

This book analyzes a wide range of Beardsley's most characteristic work. It establishes his assumptions about the underlying nature of his world, and clarifies why so many observers have considered Beardsley's art indispensable to understanding fin-de-si cle Victorian culture. Beardsley's pictures present a dialogue between seemingly polarized impulses: a desire to scandalize and destabilize the old order, and, equally strong, a need to affirm traditional authority. Beardsley depicted various grotesque shapes, caricatures, and mutated figures, including foetus/old man, dwarf, Clown, Harlequin, Pierrot, and dandy (the icon of the Decadent "Religion of Art"). Incarnating the fearful contradictions of decadence, these images served as objective correlatives of some "monstrous" metaphysical contortion. His grotesques suggest the impossibility of resolving these contradictions, even as his elegant designs try formalistically to control and recuperate the disfiguration. As a canonical style, Beardsley's "dandy" sensibility and grotesque caricatures become his means of realigning canonical meaning. Thus, he effects what might be termed a "caricature" of traditional signification. An aesthete devoted to the "Religion of Art", Beardsley, nonetheless, creates a world inescapably "de-formed". He is a Dandy of the Grotesque.

Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s

Author : Emma Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 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.

The Art of Aubrey Beardsley

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

The Savoy

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000093235426

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The Savoy by Arthur Symons Pdf

An illustrated monthly.

Aubrey Beardsley

Author : Jan Marsh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 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.

Illustrating Camelot

Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack,Alan Lupack
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843841838

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Illustrating Camelot by Barbara Tepa Lupack,Alan Lupack Pdf

An account in words and pictures of how the world of Camelot and King Arthur's knights was reflected in, and shaped by, book illustration.

Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators

Author : Stephen Bury
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1341 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199923052

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Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators by Stephen Bury Pdf

This dictionary consists of over 3000 entries on a range of British artists, from medieval manuscript illuminators to contemporary cartoonists. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on British graphic artists and illustrators from the '2006 Benezit Dictionary of Artists' with an additional 90 revised and 60 new articles.

The Decadent Republic of Letters

Author : Matthew Potolsky
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812207330

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The Decadent Republic of Letters by Matthew Potolsky Pdf

While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic of Letters, he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic sensation. The Decadent Republic of Letters looks at the way Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and Algernon Charles Swinburne used the language of classical republican political theory to define beauty as a form of civic virtue. The libertines, an international underground united by subversive erudition, gave decadents a model of countercultural affiliation and a vocabulary for criticizing national canon formation and the increasing state control of education. Decadent figures such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley, and Oscar Wilde envisioned communities formed through the circulation of art. Decadents lavishly praised their counterparts from other traditions, translated and imitated their works, and imagined the possibility of new associations forged through shared tastes and texts. Defined by artistic values rather than language, geography, or ethnic identity, these groups anticipated forms of attachment that are now familiar in youth countercultures and on social networking sites. Bold and sophisticated, The Decadent Republic of Letters unearths a pervasive decadent critique of nineteenth-century notions of political community and reveals the collective effort by the major figures of the movement to find alternatives to liberalism and nationalism.

The Beardsley Industry

Author : Jane Haville Desmarais
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429802676

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The Beardsley Industry by Jane Haville Desmarais Pdf

First published in 1998, this is the first book to examine the critical reception accorded to Beardsley’s work. For most of his short working life fierce debate raged in Britain over the merit of Aubrey Beardsley’s black and white drawings. Applauded for their technical skill, they were as often deplored for their ‘slimy nastiness’, their fin-de-siècle decadence and their foreign styles. There are ‘tainted whiffs from across the channel which lodge the Gallic germs in our lungs. Our Beardsleys have identical symptoms with Verlaine, Degas, Le Grand, Forain, and might quite well be sick from infection’ stormed Margaret Armour in the Magazine of Art. Jane Haville Desmarais opens with an account of the English response, exploring the fascinating interplay between Beardsley’s exploitation of the new media to shape his public persona and promote his work and the critics’ use of his life and art to articulate the fears and anxieties of the English fin de siècle. The second half of the book moves to France and deals with a different set of preoccupation. The French perceived Beardsley as the natural inheritor of the mantle of Pre-Raphaelitism. His work remained current largely through the interest of the Symbolists and, in particular, Robert de Montesquiou who celebrated Beardsley’s picturing of the fantasy realms of desire. The intriguing study of two very different critical traditions casts light on key issues of art history and literary studies, in particular the relationship between critical response and social perception. With 21 black and white illustrations, the book also has invaluable appendices which include a bibliography of criticism and comment on the work of Aubrey Beardsley between 1893 and 1914.

English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940

Author : Jennifer Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351193092

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English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940 by Jennifer Higgins Pdf

"Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the ""establishment"" to mainstream mutual exchange and appreciation. The translation of poetry underwent a simultaneous evolution, from attempts to produce definitive renderings to definitions of translation as an ongoing, generative process at the centre of literary debate. This study traces the impact of French poetry in England, via a wide range of translations by major poets of the time as well as renderings by now forgotten writers. It explores poetry and translations beyond the limits of the usual canon and identifies key moments of influence, from late 19th-century English homages to Victor Hugo as a liberal icon, to Ezra Pound re-interpreting Charles Baudelaire for the 20th century."

Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism

Author : Martin Lockerd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350137660

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Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism by Martin Lockerd Pdf

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists. Linking the later writers with their literary predecessors, Martin Lockerd examines the shifts in representation of Catholic decadence in the works of W. B. Yeats through Ezra Pound to T.S. Eliot; the adoption and transformation of anti-Catholicism in Irish writers George Moore and James Joyce; the Catholic literary revival as portrayed in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; and the attraction to decadent Catholicism still felt by postmodernist writers D.B.C. Pierre and Alan Hollinghurst. Drawing on new archival research, this study revisits some of the central works of modernist literature and undermines existing myths of modernist newness and secularism to supplant them with a record of spiritual turmoil, metaphysical uncertainty, and a project of cultural subversion that paradoxically relied upon the institutional bulwark of European Christianity. Lockerd explores the aesthetic, sexual, and political implications of the relationship between decadent art and Catholicism as it found a new voice in the works of iconoclastic modernist writers.

Light and Obscurity in Symbolism

Author : Deborah Cibelli,Rosina Neginsky
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781443887595

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Light and Obscurity in Symbolism by Deborah Cibelli,Rosina Neginsky Pdf

The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, since this is a movement of contrasts. It encompasses the major themes of Symbolism, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the visible and the invisible, and the divine and the earthly. This volume brings together a range of studies in order to understand the notion of light and darkness and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations. It also stresses the interdisciplinary nature of the concepts of light and darkness in Symbolism, as well as the cohabitation and symbiosis of both, which are together or separately at the core of this movement.

Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature

Author : Luba Jurgenson,Rosina Neginsky,Marthe Segrestin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527546646

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Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature by Luba Jurgenson,Rosina Neginsky,Marthe Segrestin Pdf

This volume examines various manifestations of anguish in art, literature, and philosophy. It demonstrates that the experience of anguish manifested itself in a spectacular way in the arts in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. It makes obvious the extraordinary tension between anguish and art. The works discussed here reflect the magnitude of anguish generated by historical events, scientific advancements (especially in psychology), and metaphysical inquiries of the time. Through the invention of new artistic languages, those works also illustrate the fecundity of anguish for artists.

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature

Author : Alex Tankard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319714462

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Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature by Alex Tankard Pdf

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, Invalid Lives examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. Invalid Lives asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Idiot, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel Ships That Pass in the Night represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.

Routledge Revivals: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (1999)

Author : Colin Trodd,Paul Barlow,David Amigoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351044455

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Routledge Revivals: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (1999) by Colin Trodd,Paul Barlow,David Amigoni Pdf

Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between ‘style’ and ‘concept’. The book provides an original analysis of key articulations of the Grotesque in the literary culture of Ruskin, Browning and Dickens, where represents the eruptions, intensities, confusions and disturbed vitality of modern cultural experience such as the scientific revolution associated with Darwin and the nature of industrial society.