Word: weintraub
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BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish young British artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have today won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of all the Victorians...
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...
Body into Dress. Biographer Weintraub (T. E. Lawrence, William Golding) evokes the life and times of Beardsley in splendid fashion, but presumably feels that he lacks the competence to weigh the man's art. Beardsley's exquisitely wrought line drawings embraced a vision of some unearthly world-part pagan myth, part Oriental mystery. It was a world inhabited by satyrs and hermaphrodites, dwarfs and dandies, by women either ornamentally angular and boyish or monstrously fat and corrupt. Often they were nude or seminude, but their bodies seemed merely part of their fantastically elaborate dress. His illustrations for such...
Whether he was or not can never be shown conclusively. Author Weintraub thinks that Beardsley's tuberculous condition and his consuming passion for work left him little time and less stamina for dalliance. Bernard Shaw shrewdly noted that Beardsley was "boyish enough to pose as a diabolical reveler in vices of which he was innocent...