Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley

Best Works of Aubrey BeardsleyIn the brief span of his life and career, Aubrey Beardsley (187298) galvanized public attention in 1890s London with his exotic renderings of subjects, which often projected the sensual and the grotesque. This splendid volume brings together the best of Beardsley's work a rich selection ranging from illustrations for Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Balzac's La Comdie Humaine to magazine cover designs, book plate silhouettes, title page

A never-surpassed text

Complete with Berlioz' chapters on the orchestra and on conducting

Written with complete lucidity

blue tattoo

liberal position

on mechanics to thermal processes

" — William Everson

for which actual specimens still survive

the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial

string musician

"Phanatasiestucke" (1937)

with special emphasis on spherical harmonies and the potential of the ellipsoid