Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque Hardback
by Chris (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Flor Snodgrass
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This book analyses Beardsley's most characteristic works, clarifying why his art is indispensable to understanding fin-de-siècle Victorian culture.
Beardsley's various grotesque figures serve as emblems of `monstrous' metaphysical contortion, even as his elegant designs simultaneously recuperate such dislocations formalistically.
Alternating between an urge to outrage and a craving for authority, Beardsley's elegant designs and `dandy' sensibility effect what might be called a `caricature' of traditional canonical meaning.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:358 pages, frontispiece, halftones and line illustrations throughout
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:10/08/1995
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- ISBN:9780195090628
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:358 pages, frontispiece, halftones and line illustrations throughout
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:10/08/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195090628