Aubrey Beardsley

Mark Gatiss explores the life and career of Aubrey Beardsley, an artist who wielded outrage as adroitly as his pen. A lifelong fan, Mark shows how Beardsley was more than just a genius of self-promotion who scandalised the art world of the 1890s. He was also a technological innovator, whose uncompromising attitude still feels remarkably modern. The programme follows Beardsley's fevered footsteps from his childhood in Brighton, via notoriety among the decadents of London's fin de siècle, to his early death in France in 1898 at the age of just 25. Mark argues that the key to understanding this elusive artist is his childhood diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler.

Libro recopilatorio de ilustraciones y dibujos (provocativos, eróticos, de inspiración onírica) de este artista, que tanto influyó en toda una generación de ilustradores y en el Modernismo europeo. Las ilustraciones libro fueron seleccionadas por Joaquín Monclús, que también realizó la maqueta. El prólogo con el título “Guía para decadentes” está firmado por Luis Antonio de Villena.

Dans une longue préface, « Le naufrage du paquebot Wilde, de ses passagers et de l’orchestre », Charles Dantzig, également traducteur de l’ouvrage, montre combien la terreur a régné à Londres après le procès Wilde, lequel a malgré lui entraîné dans sa chute plusieurs artistes, et une liberté esthétique.