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BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. Aubrey Beardsley's life was dedicated to decadence, but this evocative new biography-plus the current Beardsley revival -is evidence that he failed...
BEARDSLEY, by Stanely Weintraub. Aubrey Beardsley's life was dedicated to decadence, but htis evocative new biography-plus the current Beardsley revival-is evidence that he failed...
...Aubrey Beardsley was so extravagantly foppish, so precious in his speech and so languid in his posturings that Oscar Wilde claimed him as his own invention. In fact, Beardsley had invented himself. He deliberately set out to create his reputation for decadent eccentricity, and his extraordinary style was a clear forerunner of art nouveau...
...soon squandered a small inheritance; his mother, Ellen Pitt, a Brighton belle, was so slender that she was known locally as "the bottomless Pitt." For a while, young Beardsley was employed as an inept clerk in an insurance firm run by a relative, who was nearly as happy as Aubrey when the boy deserted business for art. But that career was nearly wrecked by Oscar Wilde as a consequence of Wilde's own notorious homosexual liaison with Lord Alfred Douglas. Though Beardsley's name was not even mentioned in the court proceedings, the fact that he had been...
...Miller was doping off during a discussion. Similarly, Carson's L.B.J. inaugural gag "As I was telling my bellboy, Dean Burch," was transformed a month later, during a CBS upheaval, into: "The television business is tough, as I was saying just the other day to my waiter, Jim Aubrey...