Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley
By:Chris Snodgrass
Published on 1995 by Oxford University Press

This book analyzes a wide range of Beardsley's most characteristic work. It establishes his assumptions about the underlying nature of his world, and clarifies why so many observers have considered Beardsley's art indispensable to understanding fin-de-siecle Victorian culture. Beardsley's pictures present a dialogue between seemingly polarized impulses: a desire to scandalize and destabilize the old order, and, equally strong, a need to affirm traditional authority. Beardsley depicted various grotesque shapes, caricatures, and mutated figures, including foetus/old man, dwarf, Clown, Harlequin, Pierrot, and dandy (the icon of the Decadent |Religion of Art|). Incarnating the fearful contradictions of decadence, these images served as objective correlatives of some |monstrous| metaphysical contortion. His grotesques suggest the impossibility of resolving these contradictions, even as his elegant designs try formalistically to control and recuperate the disfiguration. As a canonical style, Beardsley's |dandy| sensibility and grotesque caricatures become his means of realigning canonical meaning. Thus, he effects what might be termed a |caricature| of traditional signification. An aesthete devoted to the |Religion of Art|, Beardsley, nonetheless, creates a world inescapably |de-formed|. He is a Dandy of the Grotesque.

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