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The Art of Aubrey Beardsley

Chapter 6: ILLUSTRATIONS BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY
By Arthur Symons
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A concise critical essay combined with a rich selection of plates recounts the artist's brief career, pairing biographical reminiscence with close readings of key works and commissions. The text examines characteristic techniques such as sinuous line, stark black-and-white contrasts, and decorative ornament, and traces recurring motifs from theatrical and literary illustrations to book-covers and designs for ballet and opera. Attention is given to thematic tensions between the grotesque and the beautiful, erotic suggestion and stylized form, and to the interplay of medieval and foreign decorative influences. The volume intersperses commentary with numerous reproductions that illustrate the critic's observations.

[1] This drawing is not reproduced in this volume.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

THE LITANY OF MARY MAGDALEN

A PORTRAIT OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY, BY HIMSELF

INCIPIT VITA NOVA

SANDRO BOTTICELLI

SIEGFRIED
From "The Studio"

MERLIN
From "Le morte d'Arthur"

VIGNETTE
From "Le morte d'Arthur"

"LA BEALE ISOUD AT JOYOUS GARDEN"
From "Le morte d'Arthur"

HOW QUEEN GUINEVER MADE HER A NUN
From "Le morte d'Arthur"

"OF A NEOPHYTE? AND HOW THE BLACK ART WAS REVEALED UNTO HIM."

"THE KISS OF JUDAS"

"A SUGGESTED REFORM IN BALLET COSTUME"

BARON VERDIGRIS

THE WOMAN IN THE MOON
"From Salomé"

"THE PEACOCK SKIRT"
"From Salomé"

THE BLACK CAPE
"From Salomé"

THE PLATONIC LAMENT
"From Salomé"

ENTER HERODIAS
"From Salomé"

THE EYES OF HEROD
"From Salomé"

THE STOMACH DANCE
"From Salomé"

THE TOILETTE OF SALOMÉ
"From Salomé"

THE DANCER'S REWARD
"From Salomé"

THE CLIMAX
"From Salomé"

THE TOILETTE OF SALOMÉ, THE FIRST DRAWING
"From Salomé"

JOHN AND SALOMÉ
"From Salomé"

SALOMÉ ON SETTEE
"From Salomé"

DESIGN FOR TAILPIECE
"From Salomé"

DESIGN FOR SALOMÉ
"From The Studio"

"DESIGN FOR THE COVER OF "THE YELLOW BOOK"

NIGHTPIECE

PORTRAIT OF MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL

TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT FOR "THE YELLOW-BOOK", VOLUME II

COMEDY BALLET OF MARIONETTES I

COMEDY BALLET OF MARIONETTES II

COMEDY BALLET OF MARIONETTES III

GARÇONS DE CAFÉ

THE SLIPPERS OF CINDERELLA

PORTRAIT OF MANTEGNA
From "The Yellow Book," Vol. III.

THE WAGNERITES
From "The Yellow Book," Vol. III.

LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS
From "The Yellow Book," Vol. III.

MADAME RÉJANE

PORTRAIT OF BALZAC

DESIGN FOR FRONTISPIECE TO "AN EVIL MOTHERHOOD"

DESIGN FOR FRONT COVER OF "PIERROT"

DESIGN FOR END-PAPER OF "PIERROT"

DESIGN FOR END-PAPER OF "PIERROT"

LYSISTRATA

AN ATHENIAN WOMAN

MYRRHINA

THE DREAM

THE BARON'S PRAYER

THE RAPE OF THE LOCK

DESIGN FOR THE PROSPECTUS OF "THE SAVOY"

ANOTHER DESIGN FOR THE PROSPECTUS OF "THE SAVOY"

COVER DESIGN
From "The Savoy" N° 1.

CONTENTS PAGE
From "The Savoy" N° 1.

THE ABBÉ
From "Under the Hill"

THE FOURTH TABLEAU OF "DAS RHEINGOLD"

ERDA
To illustrate "Das Rheingold".

FLOSSHILDE
To illustrate "Das Rheingold"

THE DEATH OF PIERROT

AVE ATQUE VALE: CATULLUS, CARMEN, CI.

AUBREY BEARDSLEY'S BOOKPLATE