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Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography by Matthew Sturgis (1999, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAbrams, Inc.

ISBN-10087951910X

ISBN-139780879519100

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038707399

Product Key Features

Book TitleAubrey Beardsley : a Biography

Number of Pages405 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Erotica, Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers

Publication Year1999

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMatthew Sturgis

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight28.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-048817

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal760/.092 B

SynopsisLike Oscar Wilde, Beardsley was a leading member of the Decadent movement in England during the 1890s. Together they shocked the press and the establishment by cultivating the pose of dandies, coolly removed from prevailing social mores, and took aim at the dominant figures of the late 19th-century art world: moralizing critic John Ruskin and the sentimental pre-Raphaelite painters. That Beardsley met an early death at the age of 25 after a lifelong battle with tuberculosis was especially ironic, as the cult of the doomed youth was central to the Decadent movement. Throughout, Sturgis is in full command of the cultural conditions that led to Beardsley's emergence as an enfant terrible, such as the newly available illustrated picture press that made the artist's deliberately shocking drawings easily available to the masses and turned him into a media-art star avant la lettre. Sturgis never resorts to flimsy psychological conjecture (although his circumspection may in part be due to Beardsley's own efforts to fashion an elaborate mask for public consumption), and the biographer's prose is unexpectedly affecting when the end comes for his subject, as Beardsley rushes from spa to sanitarium, searching for a cure, frantically taking up and abandoning projects all the while. Arriving as it does in the midst of our own surface-obsessed fin de siecle, Sturgis's biography is not only a faithful record of Beardsley and of his world but also a useful study of the birth pangs of modernity. 26 b&w photographs and Beardsley's line drawings throughout., In this informative life of Beardsley, the great turn-of-the-century illustrator, limner of impossibly elongated, imperious femmes fatales and fey androgynes, Sturgis captures both his precocious subject's rise to infamy and the cultural changes that made it possible.

LC Classification NumberNC242.B3S78 1999