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THE LION AND THE CARDINAL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nine days before his death, Aubrey Beardsley wrote a letter to his publisher. It reads, in chilling conciseness: Jesus is our Lord and Judge. I implore you to destroy all copies of Lysistrata and bad drawings. By all that is holy, all obscene drawings. Aubrey Beardsley In my death agony. The final request was ignored. But the letter leaves an enduring testimony to the sincerity of its author's conversion....
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GingaTao! (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Everyone knows the difference at the far ends, on the one hand you have the active body pumping blood and in the other some image abstract an elegant Aubrey Beardsley line, I am more interested in the softer definitions near the middle. The Indians and their temple frescos, Romans and Greeks too did not think there was [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Aubrey Beardsley: Frontispiece to 'Earl Lavender', 1895
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European Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
On this date in history: 1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, an influential English illustrator, and author,...
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Fanboy.com (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Illustrator Lorena Alvarez was inspired by Marie Antoinette when she created this sketch entitled Killer Queen. I love the fact that the sketch fuses traditional French fashion with a bit of Japanese anime and Aubrey Beardsley thrown in for...
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Front Free Endpaper (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
More from the memoirs of Walter T Spencer, bookseller... [illustration: Sir Richard Burton]... Previous Post... Aubrey Beardsley came to my shop for the first time about the year 1890, before he was much known. He was such an extraordinary looking man, exactly like the signed photograph hanging in my parlour, that I cold not help wondering for long who he was. Then came an occasion on which he made...
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Archaeolog (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
Aubrey Beardsley, Bedivere casts Excalibur into the Water, 1894. Malory tells in the Morte d'Arthur (c. 1450) that at the mortally-wounded Arthur’s passing from this world to Avalon, Arthur instructs Sir Bedivere to throw his sword Excalibur into the...
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Cabinet Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/01/2008
Contusions and confusions. Half-mourning and melancholia. Twilight and adolescence, home decorators and homosexuals. Drag queen hair, cheap swag, braggadocio. Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley (that �monstrous orchid,� said Wilde). Orchids, especially Cattleya labiata. All things orchidaceous, including the word �orchidaceous.� Prose just shy of purple. According to Nabokov, time itself. A young chemist...
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GingaTao! (Free subscription) | 18/12/2007
Golddarn and damnation! said F., slamming his drink down on the piano but this time I saw it coming and held the key change together. Where ever you go it's the same goddamned story, son, democracy, monarchy, psychotic minor warlords on the edge of a wasteland, all of them, same story. The place is run by [...]
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illustration - Everyone's Tagged Photos (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
flamenconut a posté une photo : From the Irish artist Harry Clarke, in the era of Aubrey Beardsley
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Learning Curve on the Ecliptic (Free subscription) | 28/09/2007
Aubrey Beardley may not be a name well-known in the USA. He was an English artist/illustrator of the late 19th century. Homosexual, individualistic, original and an expert draftsman, he lived a short but probably very interesting life. He died of tuberculosis at the young age of 25. He managed to produce a large volume of illustrations for magazines and books in those few years. His work is instantly...
