A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley, Alice Insley

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Tate Publishing
01 May 2020

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Drawing & drawings; Individual artists, art monographs

Delve deeper into the work of the intriguing and iconic artist Aubrey Beardsley with this beautiful reissue of his classic 1897 illustrated book, containing fifty of his best known works.

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) lived a desperately short life and his career spanned just seven years. Nonetheless, his output as a draughtsman and illustrator was prolific. Beardsley's subversive illustrations became synonymous with decadence: he delighted in the erotic, shocking audiences with his bizarre sense of humour and fascination with the grotesque. His work was deemed too scandalous by many publishers of the period, but found a suitably unseemly home with the notorious Leonard Charles Smithers.

This book, published by Smithers in 1897, and now reproduced in a near-facsimile edition, is as much a historic document as it is a beautiful introduction to Beardsley's art.

By: Aubrey Beardsley
Introduction by: Alice Insley
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 114mm,
ISBN: 9781849766951
ISBN 10: 1849766959
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

ALICE INSLEY, Assistant Curator, Historic British Art at Tate Britain, provides a new introduction ensuring the book will appeal to established fans as well as those new to Beardsley's work.