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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author. He was born in Brighton.
Beardsley was aligned with the Yellow Book coterie of artists and writers, and produced many illustrations for the magazine. He was also closely aligned with Aestheticism, the British counterpart of Decadence and Symbolism.
Most of his images are done in ink, and feature large dark areas contrasted with large blank ones, and areas of fine detail contrasted with areas with none at all.
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Volume 21, number 2: Copley's Cargo
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In 1765, John Singleton Copley sent his painting Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) from Boston to London in hopes of receiving feedback from the arbiters of academic aesthetics. Several months later, he received the welcome news that Sir Joshua Reynolds had called the painting "wonderfull." In virtually every scholarly narrative of early American art, Boy with a Squirrel derives its canonical significance from this famous transatlantic relay. But the most basic reality of that relay–the massive fact of the Atlantic Ocean standing between Copley and his interlocutors–has barely been registered in the scholarship.This essay interprets Boy with a Squirrel in terms of the difficulty and delicacy of its transatlantic transmission. I argue that Copley, as he attempted to create a painting that would have the necessary transitive qualities, drew from an array of familiar discourses of Atlantic exchange and transport. The painting's profile format evoked strategies of numismatic exchange. The precise representation of the flying squirrel tapped into well-established transatlantic natural history circuits. The spatial transformations of the composition echoed not only empiricist theories of sensory conveyance (especially the writings of George Berkeley), but also mirrored the workaday dynamics of the shipping and reassembly of transatlantic commodities. Copley, like many other colonial artists, worked in a global community governed by distance, difference, and delay. By attending to the vehicular context of Boy with a Squirrel, we can begin to understand his strategies for articulating–and navigating–that new global space.
Aubrey Beardsley Collection - Brief biography and finding aid for this special collection of the artist's correspondence, at the University of Texas at Austin.
Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898 - His illustrations for Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
Beardsley - Half a dozen of his illustrations, including the cover of The Yellow Book. Book review of Mark Samuels Lasner's A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley.
Beardsley, Aubrey - Biography of the English decadent artist. With links to related topics, and bibliography.
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Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent - Short biographical article on the English illustrator.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Aubrey Beardsley - Biography of the daring English illustrator.
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Fin de Siècle: Aubrey Beardsley - Biography of the prolific illustrator, portrait, image galleries grouped by the work in which they first appeared.
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