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NC 242.B3M42 I- Earl^ work of Aubrey Beardsley, 3 T1S3 DQS aflTfl 4 university of Connecticut libraries Q^CO THIS VOLUME: -J DOES NOT CIRCULATE THE EARLY WORK OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY ,y>^' "'.^"7 /!>,^/',j^/' ^r:,,/^., /'^.y-^s^^t^^.^^.r;: (^r^\^.^„Sr,e^. ' ''WM'/. i^^ec^hicf ^^m-t '- f' LONDON: PRINTED BY THE SWAN ELECTRIC ENGRAVING COMPANY. Il6 CHARING CROSS ROAD. 1 INDEX OF CONTENTS. PORTRAIT OF AUBREY BEARDSLEV. From a study by Mr. F. H. Evans Plotogravure ........ Frontispiece TITLE-PAGE. From an unpublished design by Aubrey Bcardslcy PORTRAIT OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY. From a study by Mr. F. H. Evan Photograi'ure . 3 EARLY SKETCH OF HOLYWELL STREET. By permission of Mr. C. B. Cochran 4 HAIL MARY. Penal Sk.tch. By permission of Mr. F. H. Evans 5 PERSEUS AND THE MONSTRE. Pctin/. By permission of Messrs. Casscll & Co., Ld 6 FIGURE OF A CHILD. Pencil and Ink. By permission of Mr. F. H. Evans 7 PERSEUS. Design for a Panel. Ink „ 8 TWO FIGURES FROM BACK OF ' PERSEUS.' Penci/ 9 TWO FIGURES IN AN ATTIC. Ink and Wash Sketch lO THE PROCESSION OF JEANNE D'ARC. Pencil, reproduced in Collotype. By per mission of Mr. F. H. Evans ...... 1 SANDRO BOTTICELLL Pencil. By permission of Messrs. Cassell & Co., Ld. 1 z AN ANGEL WITH AN ORGAN. Pencil I? VIGNETTE OF A SHIP. Ink ' + ' OF A NEOPHYTE, AND HOW THE BL.ACK "ART WAS REVEALED TO HIM.' By permission of the Proprietor of the Pall Mall Magazine . 'THE KISS OF JUDAS' „ i6 VIRGILIUS THE SORCERER. By permission of Mr. David Nutt . '7 FRONTISPIECE TO ' PASTOR SANG.' By permission of Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., and Mr. Elidn Mathews ...... i8 COVER DESIGN FOR THE STUDIO. Bv permission of Mr. Charles Holme '9 SIEGFRIED. From the Sti/dio » " 20 THE BIRTHDAY OF MADAME CIGALE. From the Studio „ 21 22 REVENANTS DE MUSIQUE. >> " SALOME WITH THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST From the Studio. By permission of Mrs. Ernest Levcrson . 23 ISOLDE. Reproduced in colour. From ihe Stitdio. By permission of Mr. Charles Holme 2 + DESIGN FOR FRONT CO\'ER OF ' SALOIWE.' In possession of John Lane 25 TITLE-PAGE FOR 'SALOME' 26 CONTENTS BORDER FOR 'SALOME' 27 THE WOMAN IN THE MOON. 'Salome 28 THE PEACOCK SKIRT 29 THE BLACK CAPE 30 A PL.ATONIC LAMENT 3" ENTER HERODIAS 32 THE EYES OF HEROD 3? THE STOMACH DANCE 34 THE TOILETTE 35 INDEX OF CONTENTS. Wo. THE DANCER'S REWARD. 'Salome.' In possession of John Lane 36 THE CLIMAX. 57 THE TOILETTE. Unpublished Drawing for ' Salome' 38 JOHN AND SALOME. Unpublished Drawing 39 TAILPIECE FOR 'SALOME' 40 SKETCH FOR COVER OF 'SALOME' 41 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST 4.2 PORTRAIT OF MR. HARLAND 43 DESIGN FOR PROSPECTUS OF THE YELLOW BOOK 44 COVER DESIGN FOR YELLOW BOOK. Vol. L 45 DESIGN FOR REVERSE COVER OF YELLOW BOOK 46 TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT FOR YELLOW BOOK. Vol. I. 47 L'EDUCATION SENTIMENTALE. From Yellozv Book, Vol. L 48 NIGHT PIECE 49 PORTRAIT OF MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL 5° BOOKPLATE FOR JOHN LUMSDEN PROPERT, Esq. „ By permission 51 COVER DESIGN FOR YELLOW BOOK. Vol. H. In possession of John Lane 52 TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT FOR ., ,, ... •^3 THE COMEDY BALLET OF MARIONETTES.— I. ¥rom Yellow Book,Yo\. \\. 54 THE COMEDY BALLET OF MARIONETTES.— II. 55 THE COMEDY BALLET OF MARIONETTES.— IIL 56 GAR9ONS DE CAFE 57 THE SLIPPERS OF CINDERELLA 58 PORTRAIT OF MADAME REJANE. Out/hic 59 COVER DESIGN FOR YELLOW BOOK. Vol. III. In possession of John Lane 60 TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT FOR „ 61 MANTEGNA (published in the name of Philip Broughton). From the Yellow Book,Vo\. Ill 62 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST. Fancy portrait in bed , 63 LADY GOLD'S ESCORT 64 THE WAGNERITES 65 LA DAME AUX CAMfiLIAS 66 PASTEL STUDY (published in the name of Albert Foschter) . 67 COVER DESIGN FOR THE YELLOW BOOK. Vol. IV. In possession of Miss Chamberlayne ....... 68 TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT FOR THE YELLOW BOOK. Vol. IV 69 THE MYSTERIOUS ROSE GARDEN. From the Yellow Book, Vol. IV. 70 THE REPENTANCE OF MRS. 71 PORTRAIT OF MISS WINIFRED EMERY. Outline „ 72 FRONTISPIECE FOR JUVENAL. From the Yellozv Book,Vo\.lV. In possession of Miss Chamberlayne ....... 73 POSTER DESIGN FOR THE YELLOW BOOK. In possession of John Lane 74 ANOTHER POSTER. Unpublished ... 75 COVER DESIGN FOR THE YELLOW BOOK. Unpublished „ 76 DESIGN FOR A BOOK COVER. Unpublished „ 77 . INDEX OF CONTENTS. No. TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT. Unpublished ...... 78 MESSALINA. Unpublished ........ 79 MAITRESSE D'ORCHESTRE. Unpublished. In possession of John Lane . 80 Unpublished . TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT. .81 FRONTISPIECE FOR 'AN EVIL MOTHERHOOD.' By permission of Mr. Elkin Matthews ......... 82 ' COFFEE.' Unpublished . BLACK . -83 PORTRAIT OF MISS LETTY LIND. Out/h„: Unpublished ... 8+ ATALANTA. Unpublished. In possession of John Lane .... 85 COVER DESIGN FOR 'THE CAMBRIDGE A.B.C By permission of Mr. Austen Leigh ......... 86 FRONTISPIECE FOR 'EARL LAVENDER.' By permission of Messrs. Ward & Downey. In possession of John Lane ...... 87 FRONTISPIECE TO ' PLAYS.' By John Davidson. In possession of John Lane . 88 TITLE-PAGE ORNAMENT FOR 'PLAYS.' By John Davidson. In possession of John Lane ......... 89 CHILD AT ITS MOTHER'S BED. From the Sketch. By permission of Mr. Max Beerbohm. ......... 90 AUTUMN. By permission of Mr. Wm. Heinemann ..... 91 FRONTISPIECE AND TITLE-PAGE FOR ' VENUS AND TANNH.\USER' Unpublished ......... 92 DESIGN FOR TITLE-PAGE (VENUS) ...... 93 HEADPIECE FROM ST. PAUL'S. By permission of Mr. Henry Reichardt . 94. HEADPIECE FROM ST. PJUL'S „ „ . 95 HEADPIECE FROM ST. PJUVS „ ,, . 96 COVER DESIGN FOR 'KEYNOTES.' In possession of John Lane . 97 „ 'THE DANCING FAUN' „ „ . 98 „ 'POOR FOLK' „ „ . 99 „ 'A CHILD OF THE AGE' „ „ . 100 „ 'THE GREAT GOD PAN' „ „ . 101 „ 'DISCORDS' „ „ . 102 „ 'PRINCE ZALESKI' „ „ . 103 „ 'THE WOMAN WHO DID' „ „ . 10+ „ 'WOMEN'S TRAGEDIES' „ „ . 105 „ 'GREY ROSES' „ „ . 106 ,. 'AT THE FIRST CORNER' „ „ . 107 „ ' MONOCHROMES' „ „ . 108 „ 'AT THE RELTON ARMS' „ „ .109 „ 'THE GIRL FROM THE FARM' „ „ .no „ 'THE MIRROR OF MUSIC „ „ .111 „ 'YELLOW AND WHITE' „ „ .112 „ 'THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS' „ „ • >'3 ,. 'THE WOMAN WHO DIDN'T' „ „ "4 „ 'THE THREE IMPOSTORS' „ „ 115 INDEX OF CONTENTS. COVER DESIGN FOR 'NOBODY'S FAULT.' In possession of John Lrhc 116 'THE BRITISH BARBARIANS.' 117 'THE BARBAROUS BRITISHERS' ii« 'PLATONIC AFFECTION' I \q 'YOUNG OFEG'S DITTIES' I 20 'PAGAN PAPERS' 12 I UNFINISHED SKETCH FOR COVER OF 'THE GREAT GOD PAN I 22 EIGHT INITIAL KEYS FOR 'KEYNOTES' SERIES . 123 SEVEN INITIAL KEYS „ „ „ . >H INITIAL KEY FOR CUTTING IN GOLD .... 125 COVER DESIGN FOR 'KEYNOTES' CIRCULAR 126 DESIGN FOR AN INVITATION CARD ..... 127 DESIGN FOR MENU OF THE PLAYGOERS' CLUB. By permission of Mr. Carl Hentschel ....... 128 DESIGN FOR A GOLF CARD. By permission of Mr. R. Hippesky Cox 129 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN OUTLINE FROM 'POSTERS IN MINIATURE' ........ FRONTISPIECE TO CHOPIN'S NOCTURNES. Unpubliehcd. In possession a John Lane ........ 131 CHOPIN'S BALLADE III. OP. 47. By permission of Mr. Charles Holme . COVER DESIGN FOR WHARTON'S 'SAPPHO.' In possession of John Lane '33 COVER DESIGN FOR 'PIERROT' '3 + TITLE-PAGE DESIGN FOR 'PIERROT' 135 DESIGN FOR END PAPER. 'PIERROT' 136 DESIGN FOR END PAPER. 'PIERROT' '37 DESIGN FOR REVERSE COVER OF 'PIERROT' .38 BOOK-PLATE OF MISS OLIVE CONSTANCE. Photogravure. By peimission '39 MR. H. A. JONES AND HIS BAUBLE. By permission. ¥tom i\\c Pall Mall Budget 140 FOUR DESIGNS FOR THE NEW COINAGE „ 141 MR. HENRY IRVING AS BECKET 142 MISS ELLEN TERRY IN 'BECKET' •43 FOUR SKETCHES FROM 'BECKET' 144 TWO SKETCHES FROM 'BECKET' 145 M. ZOLA AND THE ADADEMIE FRANCAISE „ 146 PORTRAIT OF EMILE ZOLA '47 PORTRAIT OF VERDI 148 MR. AND MRS. BANCROFT IN 'DIPLOMACY' „ '49 ^NEAS ON THE LINKS 150 'ORPHEUS' AT THE LYCEUM. Two Sketches „ '5' ' ORPHEUS ' AT THE LYCEUM. Two Sketches „ 152 PORTRAIT OF JULES FERRY •S3 MR. HARRISON'S IDEAL NOVELIST •54 MR. PENNELL AS 'THE DEVIL OF NOTRE DAME' '55 DESIGN FOR A POSTER. By permission of Mr. Wm. Heinemann . .56 ' SIGNATURE. From the reverse cover of ' Salome . '57 — Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. Born August 2\, 1872 Died 3iarch i6, 1898. /^^NE hears it asserted, with a confidence that possibly may ^^-^ be born of a wish, that ' the Beardsley craze is dead.' For such as truly hold this belief it can never have been very much alive ; nor is there reason why it should have been. The suddenness of Beardsley's leap into notoriety, the curiosity excited by his audacious invention and novel style, the puzzlement that his work produced on the minds of a steady-going public, sensitive to shocks, are sufficient justification in themselves for those who can see in him only a transient ' craze.' Beardsley never could have been, and never was, intended for the many. His work is seldom of a kind that could be described as popular. Much of it, indeed, is so deliberately regardless of popular prejudices and conventions that one cannot wonder if the public at large found voice to protest against the effronteries of Beardsley at large, and objected to the inroads made upon their forbearance by what they could only regard as incomprehensible manifestations of an unmen- tionable phase of life. Making all possible allowance for this attitude, however, it remains a truism that objections do not kill. To a young and rising artist they are as wholesome nutriment as praise ; fre- I B Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. quently more wholesome. And Beardsley had both. Extravagantly praised and extravagantly hated, he worked in an atmosphere of exotic stimulus which was largely responsible for the eccentricities that developed themselves in his art and in his character. Pricked on upon one hand by the lavish admiration of a group which saw in him more genius than he was really conscious of himself, piqued on the other by the exclamations of a public he was delighted to offend, it is small wonder that his work presented a see-saw appearance, ranging from the nearly sublime to the more than frankly ridiculous.
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    Critical Beauty: The Decorative, the Grotesque and the Explicit in the work of Aubrey Beardsley and Kara Walker Natalya Hughes School of Art Theory/ Art History College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales STATEMENT OF ORIGINAL AUTHORISHIP ‘I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicitly acknowledged in the thesis. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project's design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged.’ Signed …………………………………………….............. Date …………………………………………….............. ii ABSTRACT This research project centres on a representative mode in the visual arts marked by seemingly contradictory operations. Made through a particular use of decorative form, this mode combines the operations of aesthetic pleasure and a more challenging or destabilising affect. It co-implicates formal beauty and a critical content usually associated with so-called anti-aesthetic art practices. The written component analyses the occurrence of this contradictory logic of representation in the work of late Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, and contemporary African American artist Kara Walker. Here I argue that while existing criticism on Beardsley and Walker points to the co-existence of these seemingly contradictory operations, it consistently privileges one term (i.e.