AUBREY BEARDSLEY

This is the first book to bring together the surviving works-more than 1,150 in total, including over 50 that have never before been published-of the celebrated and controversial artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, Beardsley's work shaped Art Nouveau in Britain. His distinctive graphic style outraged critics and led them to overstate his rebellious and eccentric persona. Beardsley's illustrations, at turns frankly grotesque, delicately beautiful, and hilariously bawdy, in...[Read more]