Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque
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- ISBN 9780195090628
- Weight: 875g
- Dimensions: 175 x 245mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 1995
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
