Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley A Biography

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The first biography for 15 years of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98), one of the greatest - and most distinctive - artistic geniuses Britain has produced: a quintessential figure of the 'naughty nineties', a defining figure of the fin-de-siècle and notorious friend of Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm.

Beardsley's infamous reputation, brief tragic life (he died of tuberculosis aged 25) and instantly recognisable style make him one of the key figures of the Modern Age.

His erotic, decadent, black-and-white illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome set the tone of his style: shocking, facetious and cruel. His illustrations for The Yellow Book and The Savoy made them famous, before he fell from grace following the Wilde scandal.

Born in Brighton in 1872 of lower middle-class parents, he spent a miserable year in a London insurance office before being 'discovered' by Edward Burne-Jones.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780006550563
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Collins Flamingo
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.6092
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 404
Weight: 330g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm