Beardsley, with his infamous reputation, tragic life and instantly recognisable style, is one of the paradigmatic figures of the Modern Age, who worked hard to fashion his persona. Born in Brighton in 1872 of lower-class parents and diagnosed a consumptive at the age of seven, Beardsley quickly established himself as a precocious talent. His erotic, decadent illustrations for Oscar Wilde's "Salome" set the tone of his style: by turn shocking, facetious and cruel. Elongated and androgynous himself, he was readily confused ...
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Beardsley, with his infamous reputation, tragic life and instantly recognisable style, is one of the paradigmatic figures of the Modern Age, who worked hard to fashion his persona. Born in Brighton in 1872 of lower-class parents and diagnosed a consumptive at the age of seven, Beardsley quickly established himself as a precocious talent. His erotic, decadent illustrations for Oscar Wilde's "Salome" set the tone of his style: by turn shocking, facetious and cruel. Elongated and androgynous himself, he was readily confused with his own degenerate pictures. Sex suffuses his art and accounts for the mixture of fascination and horror with which his pictures were viewed by contemporaries.
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1999, Overlook Press
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First American edn
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Overlook Press
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1999
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14641907444
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8vo, pp. 404. Bibliographical note, notes, index. Illustrated with photographs, and reproductions of some of Beardsley's drawings. A nice copy in lightly scuffed dj.
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Photos, line drawings. VG in VG DJ. Though only 26 when he died, Beardsley's short life came to be one of the defining figures of the fin de siecle, a precocious. Line artist who redefined the limits of black-and-white art. His erotic decadent illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome and the famous journal The Yellow Book set the tone for his style by turns shocking, facetious and cruel. Author Sturgis has uncovered a great amount of new material and used many previously untapped sources to produce the most compelling and definitive account of Beardsley's life to date. Wonderful copy.
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Sturgis draws a simpathic picture of this great illistrator and his times. Although I must say his strict adherance to chonological order of events does make for rather uninteresting reading.
I sense that Sturgis, by his tone, is somewhat homophobic. In fact, the books style is very much in the attitudes of the 1890's. Over all, a "good" book
