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Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque
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This book analyses Beardsley’s most characteristic works, clarifying why his art is indispensable to understanding fin-de-siècle Victorian culture. Beardsley’s various grotesque figures serve as emblems of monstrous’ metaphysical contortion, even as his elegant designs simultaneously recuperate such dislocations formalistically. Alternating between an urge to outrage and a craving for authority, Beardsley’s elegant designs and dandy’ sensibility effect what might be called a caricature’ of traditional canonical meaning.
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Abstract
This book analyses Beardsley’s most characteristic works, clarifying why his art is indispensable to understanding fin-de-siècle Victorian culture.
Beardsley’s various grotesque figures serve as emblems of monstrous’ metaphysical contortion, even as his elegant designs simultaneously recuperate such dislocations formalistically.
Alternating between an urge to outrage and a craving for authority, Beardsley’s elegant designs and dandy’ sensibility effect what might be called a caricature’ of traditional canonical meaning.
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