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| | Aubrey Beardsley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Aubrey Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which themes he explored in his later work. |  | | Beardsley's work reflected the decadence of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster Art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period Art Nouveau artists like Pape, Mucha and Clarke. |  | | Beardsley was also a caricaturist and even did some political cartoons, mirroring Wilde's irreverant wit in art. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
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| | Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Beardsley raised eyebrows as well as ire: his notoriety spread rapidly, and in 1894 he became the art editor of the infamous Yellow Book, a high-toned literary magazine with a self-imposed mandate to shock. |  | | It was no accident that the work of Victorian illustrator Aubrey Beardsley had a popular and critical revival in the mid 1960s. |  | | If the pop culture of the 1960s brought Beardsley artistic and social acceptance, it was certainly not unanimous: even in those years, his work seemed shocking. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/books/99/07/08/AUBREY_BEARDSLEY.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Beardsley was art editor of the celebrated periodical The Yellow Book (1894-1895) and of The Savoy (1896); both of these publications featured his work. |  | | Beardsley, born in Brighton, briefly attended the Westminster School of Art in London. |  | | Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872-1898), English artist, whose sensitive, highly imaginative style and hedonistic, occasionally macabre subject matter place him within the European fin-de-siècle artistic movement. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556411/Aubrey_Beardsley.html
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 | | Beardsley admired the pre-Raphaelites’ traditional, distant style and the thought provoking two-dimensional Japanese art of drawing, which subsequently had a sexual lack of inhibition which was unthinkable in prudish Victorian England. |  | | Without any education in arts he developed his passionate style of drawing, averse to the social and political equalization, and not being socially engaged as many of his contemporaries. |  | | Along the lines of the Fin-de-Siècle he cultivated ugliness to a ruthless aestheticism of decadence, like Beaudelaire did in his Fleurs du Mal. |
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http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/beardsley_eng.htm
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| | WetCanvas: Virtual Museum: Individual Artists: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley |
 | | In 1893 Beardsley was admitted as a member of the New English Art Club and appointed theatrical cartoonist to "The Pall Mall Budget." In 1894 his work was shown with Les XX in Brussels. |  | | Attracted by his drawings, the financier of a new magazine, "The Studio", made it a condition of his supporting the publication that Beardsley should be asked to contribute to it. |  | | It was Frederick Evans who got him his first commission, for five hundred illustrations to a new edition of Malory's "Morte d'Authur." At the age of 20 Beardsley gave up his job, to devote his days to the museums and galleries and the pursuit of social contacts, and his nights to drawing. |
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http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Artists/b/Aubrey_Vincent_Beardsley
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| | Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | This famous quarterly of art and literature, for which Beardsley served as art editor and the American expatriate Henry Harland as literary editor, brought the artist's work to a larger public. |  | | Beardsley found in The Savoy an outlet for his writings as well as art. |  | | [Beardsley's drawings were "like the naughty scribbles a precocious boy makes on the margins of his copybooks."] It was not Wilde, however, who asked Beardsley to revise four of the drawings, but the publisher of the play, who was offended by the grotesque nudity in them. |
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http://www.giant.net/~amphagorey/beardsley/beardsley.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography |
 | | The author's portrait of Beardsley is equally vivid, limning both his dandified affectations and underlying sweetness, his dedication to art and the distaste for sustained work that made him the despair of his publishers. |  | | 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. |  | | From Beardsley's birth in Brighton to his untimely death in Menton, his tragic story is told with warmth, pathos and the great knowledge of a man clearly admiring of his subject. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087951910X?v=glance
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| | Aubrey Beardsley: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
 | | Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in Brighton on 21 August 1872 and early showed artistic ability, acting and playing in concerts with his sister Mabel and producing drawings of recognized merit. |  | | The Aubrey Beardsley materials comprise a large group of letters Beardsley wrote to his patron André Raffalovich and others between 1893 and Beardsley's death in 1898, together with a larger body of letters art scholar R. Walker wrote to Beardsley collector A. Severn between 1943 and 1959. |  | | The Beardsley family's means were modest, and by 1888 Aubrey had quit school to work as a clerk. |
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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00010/hrc-00010.html
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| | glbtq >> arts >> Beardsley, Aubrey |
 | | English decadent artist Aubrey Beardsley was a precocious talent who made a lasting contribution to the art of illustration. |  | | In his last months, Beardsley was sustained by the patronage of Smithers and the support of his friend Marc André Raffalovich, a Russian-born poet and theorist of homosexuality. |  | | Beardsley is preeminently a satirical artist, with a gift for caricature and grotesquerie. |
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http://www.glbtq.com/arts/beardsley_a.html
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| | The Art of Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Aubrey Beardsley was an illustrator who took part in this movement, and became known in the larger context of Art Nouveau. |  | | Beardsley worked on the first five issues of the Yellow Book, but was fired when his name became involved with the Wilde scandal. |  | | Beardsley, as a member of the avant garde, also criticized the Victorian art world with its pressure to conform to the Victorian artistic ideal. |
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http://www.loyno.edu/history/journal/1992-3/smith-e.htm
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| | The Genius of Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Aubrey Beardsley died on the night of March 15, 1898, a young man of 25, unaware that he would be the chief innovator of art nouveau and the spiritual godfather of art deco. |  | | Beardsley's novel Under the Hill was too hot for its time and unfinished at his death. |  | | In a very short quarter century, Aubrey Beardsley displayed a genius that would influence all of the art of the twentieth century and most probably, several centuries yet to come. |
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http://www.abbookman.com/ABBookman_F012105.html
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| | Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited |
 | | Beardsley was encouraged by his mother who also taught him to play the piano before he was five and he composed nocturnes before he was ten. |  | | Beardsley was tainted by his association with Wilde but his reputation recovered through his beautiful religious drawings including one of the Virgin and Child. |  | | Beardsley worked as a city clerk but on the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones took up art full time. |
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http://www.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/603ab.htm
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| | Aubrey Beardsley by Sharon Himes : Art History on the Art Cafe Network |
 | | Beardsley's work was admired by Picasso, Kandinski and others who were beginning to paint in a less representational style. |  | | lthough he died when he was only twenty-five, Englishman, Aubrey Beardsley, was one of the influencial artists of the 1890s and a leader of the Art Nouveau style. |  | | In 1893 Beardsley was made the art director for the Yellow Book, an influencial and controversial literary and art quarterly. |
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http://www.artcafe.net/ah/beardsley
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| | Annoying the Victorians |
 | | To consider the 1890's art world in London, and the provocative illustrator Aubrey Beardsley in particular, is to view a scene that presaged important trends in 20th-century culture, when controversial art became commercially viable and when an artistic personality became an instant commodity. |  | | Beardsley's first important commission was to illustrate Malory's ''Morte d'Arthur.'' The commission allowed Beardsley to quit his job, buy a house and mingle with artistic and literary society. |  | | Yet Beardsley's title-page drawing, as Sturgis astutely observes, succeeded in turning Victorian principles of domesticity and beauty on their head, and his work opened up vistas that can plausibly be traced forward to the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/books/99/02/21/reviews/990221.21vinct.html
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| | Aubrey Beardsley Chronology |
 | | Beardsley is dismissed by Lane who is under pressure to rid the organisation of all 'decadent' influences. |  | | Deathly ill, Beardsley is commission by Leonard Smithers, a notorious publisher of erotica, to do illustrations for a new publication, The Savoy, set up as a rival to The Yellow Book. |  | | Lane later has occasion for regretting his choice, as he continually wrangles with Beardsley over his outrageous, erotic illustrations. |
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http://www.wam.umd.edu/~byrnejo/beardsley/chronology.html
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| | AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY - LoveToKnow Article on AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY |
 | | In 1892 he attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Brown; and from 1893 until his death, at Mentone, on the 16th of March 1898, his work came continually before the public, arousing a storm of criticism and much hostile feeling. |  | | The following are the chief works which are illustrated with drawings by Beardsley: the Bon Met Library, The Pall Mall Budget, and The Studio (1893), Sir Thomas Malorys Morle dArt hur (1893-1894), Salom (1894), The Yellolv Book (1894-1895), The Saroy Magazine (1896), The Rape of the Lock (1896). |  | | His posters for the Avenue theatre and for Mr Fisher Unwin were among the first of the modern cult of that art. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BE/BEARDSLEY_AUBREY_VINCENT.htm
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 | | Beardsley Exhibition The University of Melbourne - Library - Beardsley Exhibition |  | | Online exhibition developed from the exhibition "Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890s - a tribute" curated by Ann Galbally (Reader and Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology) and Merete Smith (Rare Books Curator, the University Library). |  | | Beardsley's taste for elegant erotica placed him at odds with polite society and he died completely out of favour. |
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http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/whatson/exhib/beardsley
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| | Dandy of the Grotesque |
 | | Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque analyzes a wide range of Beardsley’s most characteristic works, establishing the assumptions underlying his world view and clarifying why so many observers have considered Beardsley’s art indispensable to understanding fin-de-siècle Victorian culture. |  | | The book examines Aubrey Beardsley's artistic development and his implicit view of the nature of meaning itself in the context of the fin de siècle. |  | | Examines Beardsley’s desire to violate and destabilize conventional boundaries of decorum and how this iconoclastic “urge to outrage” functioned as a rhetorical imperative in his art, imposing a distinctive, personal “signature” on the ruling canonical order. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Dandy_of_the_Grotesque.htm
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| | Beardsley, Aubrey |
 | | Fin-de-siecle artist Aubrey Beardsley died tragically young of tuberculosis at the age of 25, but he left an enormous body of work behind which has come to symbolise the decadence of the 1890s. |  | | Peacock Skirt, Framed Art Print By Aubrey Beardsley... |
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http://www.growinglifestyle.co.uk/uk/j831288
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| | aubrey beardsley |
 | | Aubrey Beardsley is an English artist, alive during the late 1800s, whose sensitive, imaginative style and occasionally macabre subject matter place him within the European fin-de-siècle artistic movement. |  | | One thing that ties Beardsley in with Cindy Sherman, and other Gothic artists, is the use of masks. |  | | Many of Beardsley's works of art portray oversized male anatomy and large naked women. |
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http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~stripp/S00/ngora/project2-pg3.htm
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| | Aubrey Beardsley Book from Books.co.uk |
 | | Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, illustrator and writer, was the most notorious and outstanding artist of the fin de si?cle. |  | | His disturbing erotic drawings shocked the sensibilities of the Victorians and his friendship and collaboration with Oscar Wilde has secured his place in the pantheon of great artists of the 19th century. |  | | Jaques-Emile Blanche's portrait of Bearsley, his face 'like a silver hatchet', is the enduring image of this fabulously talented man who died at the age of just 25. |
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http://www.books.co.uk/aubrey_beardsley/0752817841.html
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| | Aubrey Beardsley Online |
 | | Aubrey Beardsley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Tannhauser, pen and ink drawing |  | | Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 2 works by or related to the artist |  | | Tate Gallery, London, UK Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK 8 works online |
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http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/beardsley_aubrey.html
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| | Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (Getty Museum) |
 | | Beardsley's illustrations for Oscar Wilde's celebrated play Salomé earned him his greatest professional acclaim, but his professional association with the flamboyant Wilde led to dismissal from the journal. |  | | From a young age, Beardsley displayed a natural aptitude for drawing. |  | | Despite little formal training, he devoted his energies to art and produced drawings that revealed broad influences including Greek vase-painting, Japanese prints, French Rococo decoration, and the paintings of Andrea Mantegna. |
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http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a3926-1.html
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| | Aubrey Beardsley Art Image Collections |
 | | Jones war von Beardsley‘s Kunstwerk beeindruckt und empfaahl ihm an der Westminister School of Art Kurse zu machen. |  | | This drawing was done as part of the series, Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin by Aubrey Beardsley published by Leonard Smithers and Co., London, 1898. |  | | Both this drawing and the one below were part of Beardsley's work for Le Morte Darthur, published by J.M. Dent, London, 1893-94. |
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http://people.colgate.edu/kpiercemcmanamon/aubrey_beardsley_art_image_colle.htm
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| | Aubrey Beardsley Collection |
 | | Catalogue of An Exhibition of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. |  | | caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by an unidentified artist |  | | Reade, Brian, compiler: Aubrey Beardsley: an Exhibition Arranged by Brian Reade for the Gallery of Modern Art, Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1967. |
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http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/beardsley.html
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| | Biblio: AUBREY BEARDSLEY by Calloway, Stephen: Details |
 | | This book, published to commemorate the centenary of his tragically early death at the age of twenty-five, tells the story of his extraordinary life and brief, hectic career. |  | | Also included are examples of his innovative prints, posters, and bookbindings, along with a gallery of portraits and photographs of Wilde, Yeats, and other celebrated figures in Beardsley's circle. |  | | It demonstrates why his drawings, with their subtle symbolism, highly charged eroticism, sensuous ornamentalism, and self-conscious decadence, have a renewed resonance in our own turn-of-the-century world. |
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http://www.biblio.com/books/isbnnu/93954.html
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| | The Yellow Book |
 | | Contributors such as William Watson demanded that Beardsley be fired as art editor because of his association with Wilde (he had illustrated Wilde's Salome the year before) and the Bodley Head's premises were set upon by a mob who broke every window. |  | | To put the critics in their place, Beardsley published in Volume III two drawings by him in differing styles under the names Phillip Brouqhton and Albert Foschter. |  | | Under pressure, Lane sacked Beardsley and removed all traces of the artist -- but the back cover and the spine, which were overlooked -- from Volume V, then in the final stages of production. |
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http://www.giant.net/~amphagorey/beardsley/yellow-book/yellowbook.htm
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| | Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | It was a field in which a number of outstanding artists were then working, including Walter Crane, co-founder with William Morris of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. |  | | "...The concern of Beardsley was not to create an illusion of reality, but, like the Eastern artist, to make a beautiful design or pattern within a given space. |  | | The venomous elegance of his drawings has an ornamental rhythm akin to the abstract decorations of Islamic palaces. |
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http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beardsley.html
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| | Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project |
 | | This work, never published, was heavily influenced by Aubrey Beardsley in style and subject. |  | | Keith Nicholson says that this work was inspired more by Chinese colorists than by Beardsley and that some of this series was "Nielsen at his most menacing and grotesque" (Larkin 1975). |  | | Many of Beardsley's characteristics are in Nielsen's work, especially his "floral style. |
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/nielsen.htm
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| | Worcester Art Museum - Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Mounted on a photographic copy of a decorative border drawn by Beardsley for Malory's book, this profile portrait emphasizes the delicate features of the twenty-one-year-old artist. |  | | Worcester Art Museum - Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley |  | | During a time when photographers retouched negatives and manipulated printing, he made "plain prints from plain negatives" and became well known for his evocative pictures of England's great cathedrals. |
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http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/European/1966.58.html
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| | AXE - Special Collections - Aubrey Vincent Beardsley |
 | | The Art of Aubrey Beardsley by Erin Smith |  | | Aubrey Beardsley Art Images These image collections feature illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley from Salom&;, The Yellow Book, and elsewhere. |  | | This collection comprises books illustrated by British artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898) and used by Katherine Mix for A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and its contributors (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960), with two proofs of woodprints of Beardsley drawings. |
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http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxbeardsley.html
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| | Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews |
 | | Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Aubrey Beardsley. |  | | Curated by Dr. Lyn Bolen Rushton for the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, the exhibition features site-specific piec... |  | | This project resulted in more commissions, the most famous of these being his pen and ink illustrations of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. |
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http://www.wwar.com/masters/b/beardsley-aubrey.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Young Beardsley commenced work as a clerk in the Guardian Fire Office, but at the earnest persuasions of Aymer Vallance and Pennell he entered Fred Brown's studio at Westminster and devoted his attention to illustration. |  | | His earliest published work was a programme for an entertainment in 1888 at Brighton Grammar School, where he was a pupil, and his next in the "Bee Magazine", Blackburn, 1891. |  | | He possessed a vigour, inventiveness, and daintiness almost unapproachable in the work of any other man. Hammerton speaks of the "serene surety of his drawing", of his "superb sense of style"' but Beardsley's love of mischief, which he deeply regretted, led him into serious faults and caused him to be often misunderstood. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02363a.htm
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| | Aubrey Beardsley Poster Page |
 | | Beardsley's sources of his style are English, the graphic art of the Pre-Raphaelites and the curvilinear ornamentation of William Morris with a strong influence of Japanese decoration. |  | | The illustrations for "The Studio" and "The Yellow Book" were wonderful creations of line and black dots, masterpieces in a graphic technique that was genuinely original and that had a profound influence on the decorative arts for generations to follow. |  | | Aubrey Beardsley was a talented illustrator whose elegantly "decadent" black and white illustrations proved to be very popular during his brief lifespan. |
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http://www.imagemakers.mb.ca/posters/beardsley/beardsley1.html
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| | Russian Gothic Page - Dark Gothic Art - Paintings by Aubrey ... |
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http://art.gothic.ru/paint/beardsley/index_e.htm
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| | Art Nouveau |
 | | The lingering impact of Morris in England slowed down the progress of the new style in design although Mackmurdo, Godwin, Townsend and even Voysey were influenced towards Art Nouveau. |  | | It was in illustration that the ideas were most keenly felt, through the new periodicals and presses - the Yellow Book, the Studio, the Savoy, the Hobby Horse - and though the work of Beardsley, Ricketts and Selwyn Image. |
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http://www.artchive.com/artchive/art_nouveau.html
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| | Aubrey Beardsley |
 | | Beardsley was the art editor of the Yellow Book in 1894-95. |  | | He illustrated for the Savoy magazine in 1896. |
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http://www.paralumun.com/artbeardsley.htm
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| | Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project |
 | | Arthur Rackham took part in an exhibition of publishers J.M. Dent's black and white artists to mark the publication of Morte Darthur, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, at the Institute of Watercolour Painters in Piccadilly in 1894. |  | | He was appointed Admiralty Marshal and began illustrating for Cassell's magazines Chums and Little Folks and other Cassell publications. |
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/rackham.htm
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| | Aubrey Beardsley, A Biography |
 | | A delicate and frail child, likened by his mother to a "Little piece of Dresden China." He had a very brief life, dying in 1898 at the age of 26, "at the age of a flower" as Oscar Wilde had remarked. |  | | Arts and crafts societies, handicraft guilds, art centres and exhibitions sprung up all over England. |  | | Very influenced by sensual French literature and by Wagner's Operas with their themes of incest and lust, he created a body of erotic work of great individuality which was regarded as indecent by most of his Victorian contemporaries. |
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http://www.dangoor.com/70018.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Caleb Fullam; puppeteer had flair for unusual |
 | | In addition to presenting standard fairy-tale fare for children, he adapted works by 19th century artist Aubrey Beardsley and 18th century composer Joseph Haydn and was sometimes billed as a ''radical gay puppeteer." |  | | The work, which combined live performers and puppets, was described as dark Gilbert and Sullivan. |  | | ''His passions were puppetry, Aubrey Beardsley, and the aesthetic movements, and somehow he managed to combine them all." |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/10/29/caleb_fullam_puppeteer_had_flair_for_unusual
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| | Aubrey Beardsley; Author: Colvin, David; Hardback; Book |
 | | The work and life of Aubrey Beardsley published to tie-in with the centenary of his death, a major exhibition of his work at the V&A, and a two hour TV special on his life. |  | | Hardback; Book; 80 Colour and B&w Il 112 pages |
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http://www.netstoreusa.com/atbooks/075/0752817841.shtml
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Not just a place to do your hair |
 | | There must be 500 copies for particular friends, six for the general public and one for America." Wilde thrived in this oral environment; he was, Leverson thought, "greater, perhaps, as an improviser in conversation than as a writer". |  | | In the room devoted to Gertrude Stein's salon, you can appreciate two Louis XV fauteuils with needlepoint seats and backs done by Stein's lover Alice B Toklas after designs by Pablo Picasso, a regular attendee. |  | | The room recreating Ada Leverson's 1890s London salon, which was frequented by Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, John Singer Sargent and Max Beerbohm, makes one realise that civilised repartee did not expire as it crossed the Channel. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1517610,00.html
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