Posts Tagged: Aubrey Beardsley
Pearls: Aubrey Beardsley
“I see everything in a grotesque way…”
Dress-down Friday: Diane de Rougy
A captivating Cantabrigian vision
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Jacques-Émile Blanche | portraits
Many of these portraits are currently on display in the exhibition Du côté de chez Jacques-Émile Blanche at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.
Jacques-Émile Blanche | portraits
Many of these portraits are currently on display in the exhibition Du côté de chez Jacques-Émile Blanche at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.
Places: Under the Hill
More Adey was a Catholic convert, a friend of Oscar Wilde with rarefied tastes in arts and letters, but he was at once more scholarly and less flamboyant than most of the Wilde bunch he rolled with.
Places: Under the Hill
More Adey was a Catholic convert, a friend of Oscar Wilde with rarefied tastes in arts and letters, but he was at once more scholarly and less flamboyant than most of the Wilde bunch he rolled with.
Nazimova’s secret garden
Nazimova enlisted designer Natacha Rambova, wife of Rudolph Valentino. Sets and costumes borrowed liberally from Beardsley’s illustrations, with a riot of dwarves, drag queens, half-naked slaves and camp courtiers in extravagant headpieces.
Nazimova’s secret garden
Nazimova enlisted designer Natacha Rambova, wife of Rudolph Valentino. Sets and costumes borrowed liberally from Beardsley’s illustrations, with a riot of dwarves, drag queens, half-naked slaves and camp courtiers in extravagant headpieces.
Venus as a boy
Though her business card proclaimed her a “man of letters”, Rachilde was the only female author of note among the Decadents but arguably the one who pushed their preoccupation with gender meddling the furthest.
Venus as a boy
Though her business card proclaimed her a “man of letters”, Rachilde was the only female author of note among the Decadents but arguably the one who pushed their preoccupation with gender meddling the furthest.
Strange Flowers 