Grotesque and Performance in the Art of Aubrey Beardsley

• Main Author: STEAD, Evanghelia
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Open Book Publishers 2024
• Subjects: Aubrey Beardsley; British and comparative art; Drawing and drawings; fin-de-siècle; grotesque; media and print culture; media performance; Prints and printmaking; The Arts; The Arts: art forms; The arts: general topics; Theory of art

“If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.” This insightful study illuminates previously unexplored aspects of Aubrey Beardsley’s relationship to the grotesque and his use of media, particularly his manipulation of the periodical press. For the first time and with keen intelligence, Evanghelia Stead full...