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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...
After the Wilde-Douglas episode, Beardsley gradually made a comeback, but his career and life were tottering toward an end. He still drew by candlelight in a darkened room, working furiously because he knew that he was doomed by his lungs. He moved from London to the softer climate of Dieppe and finally to the French Riviera. His sister had become a Roman Catholic, and Beardsley, in terror of death, soon followed. In a last letter, written in "my death agony," he begged his publisher to destroy all his "obscene drawings," particularly his series on Lysistrata, but the letter...
Audacious Whispers. Beardsley's figures often seem to be whispering audacious obscenities to each other. What they might be saying is suggested by his only novel, Under the Hill, which employs a curious mixture of four-letter words and effete and esoteric Gallicisms. Recently published by Grove Press ($3.95), the novel is Beardsley's pornographic retelling of the Tannhauser legend. Beardsley never completed the book, but the final quarter has been written according to his plan by Canadian Poet John Glassco. His work ably mimics Beardsley's writing, giving credence to Glassco's boast that...
What is most startling about the drawings is that they were the work of an eager young man in his twenties and not a mature artist surfeited with life and pleasure. But perhaps Beardsley was born ancient; one friend recalled that, even as a child, Beardsley had "the oldest eyes I have ever seen...