Aubrey Beardsley

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019308257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aubrey Beardsley written by Arthur Symons and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Aubrey Beardsley written by Arthur Symons and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613573X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley written by Aubrey Beardsley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hiroshi Unno
Publisher : Pie Books
ISBN 13 : 9784756252883
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aubrey Beardsley written by Hiroshi Unno and published by Pie Books. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838668849
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley written by Aubrey Beardsley and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley written by Aubrey Beardsley and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Slessor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753703427
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Aubrey Beardsley written by Catherine Slessor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486997707
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beardsley Illustrations written by Aubrey Beardsley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jan Marsh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500480591
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aubrey Beardsley written by Jan Marsh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304656
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black and White written by Brigid Brophy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[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.