Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography

by Matthew Sturgis

Book Overview

Like 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087951910X
• ISBN13: 9780879519100
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"