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Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 - 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
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There is no evidence that Beardsley was gay. He was, however, closely associated with Oscar Wilde and other aesthetes, illustrating their work. Although best known for his drawings, which frequently had an often exaggerated sexual element, he also wrote, but did not finish, a - heterosexually - erotic story, Under the Hill.
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Under The Hill
by Aubrey Beardsley, completed by John Glassco
1966, New English Library (orig 1959)
Very Good, £6.00
"in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of state held by Madam Venus,
goddess & meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhäuser in that place, his journeying to Rome and return to the Loving Mountain"
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Beardsley
by Stanley Weintraub
1972, Pelican (orig 1967)
Good, £3.75
standard biography of the artist
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Aubrey Beardsley
by Robert Ross
1909 (first edition), John Lane, The Bodley Head
Good, £45
Short (40+ pages) biography / appreciation by the journalist and art critic who was also the executor of Oscar Wilde's estate. It includes
sixteen full-page illustrations and a revised iconography of the artist's work by Aymer Vallance
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