Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
by Aubrey Beardsley
from Dover Publications
The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley
by Edited By Bruce S. Harris
from Bounty Books
Book is an important work for those interested in the origins and development of modern art, and for those fascinated by a unique and splendid talent that flourished far too briefly.
Beardsley's Le Morte Darthur: Selected Illustrations (The Dover Art Library)
by Aubrey Beardsley
from Dover Publications
Aubrey Beardsley - And the Nineties
by Peter Raby
from Collins & Brown
Aubrey Beardsley lived the life of a decadent, and his art--witty, irreverent, grotesque--often shocked late-Victorian sensibilities. His work was also sublimely elegant, and his stylish, suggestive illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome, and for The Studio, The Yellow Book, and The Savoy were widely admired throughout Europe and America. In Peter Raby's new book, Beardsley's brief, meteoric career is placed in the context of the remarkable age in which he lived. Complemented by numerous reproductions of his work, it presents a captivating portrait of the artist and the last decade of the 19th century. Peter Raby is the author of Bright Paradise, Samuel Butler, and The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde.
THE COLLECTED DRAWINGS OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY
by Arthur SYMONS
from Bounty Books/Crown
Aubrey Beardsley
by Stephen Calloway
from Harry N. Abrams
There was little that fin-de-siècle artist Aubrey Beardsley's famous gold-nibbed pen could not illustrate--drawings, posters, bookbindings. Though he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, he left an enormous body of work behind that found a willing audience during his lifetime in the more outré circles of the "naughty '90s" and now symbolizes the decadence of the 1890s. Beardsley possessed an astonishing range of expression, but he is perhaps most famous for his outrageous erotic drawings--many of which adorned such artistic magazines as the Savoy and the Yellow Book. He pushed public opinion to the limit with his sequence of graphic illustrations for Aristophanes's Lysistrata, which, deemed obscene, remained unpublished until 1966.
Biographer Stephen Calloway curated the centenary exhibition of Beardsley's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London during autumn of 1998. He closely scrutinizes Beardsley's life in the light of his subversive drawings in this in-depth, superbly illustrated biography that coincides with the exhibition.
SALOME: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
Hard Cover Book by the notorious Oscar Wilde, beautifully illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (16 full page illustrations) introductory note by Wildes lifelong associate Robert Baldwin Ross, published by Illustrated Editions Company, New York, 122pp. No printed date on this edition. Printed by J.J. Little & Ives. Originally written in French in 1891, published in 1894, and in 1896 it was performed in Paris with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role. After being written, the play has been censored in England. After it was translated by Lord Alfred Douglas (another close friend of Wildes), the censorship was dropped and it was performed by the New Stage Club at Londons Palace Theatre in 1905. Wilde had died in 1900 and left his estate bankrupt and in a state of chaos. Although there is no printed date on this edition, Mr. Ross died in 1918 after he had spent the last 18 years of his life recovering, organizing and publishing Wildes literary works for Oscar Wildes family. Therefore it can be assumed that this edition was published prior to the death of Mr. Ross. The text includes a cast list from the first English performance in 1905, a reproduction of Richard Strausss opera poster (1905), and a reproduction of the original plays cover design.
Aubrey Beardsley
At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry was to call Aubrey Beardsley, was an obscure clerk in a London insurance firm. Three years later he was the most notorious — and perhaps the most influential — artist in England.
Here, then, is the marvelous boy—he died at twenty-five—as human being and as complex and tragic genius, in the rich context of 150 examples of his graphic art.
The original version of Aubrey Beardsley was a National Book Award nominee.
Reconsidering Aubrey Beardsley (Nineteenth-Century Studies)
Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque
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-siecle 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.
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