Black and White and Rude All Over It’s Aubrey Beardsley’s 141st birthday. Anyone old enough to remember the sudden spread of Beardsley posters and styles onto students’ walls and album covers and fashion pages around 1967 can echo Max Beerbohm’s self-mockery in Diminuendo: ‘…Already I feel myself to be a trifle outmoded. I belong to the Beardsley period….’ victorianweb.org/authors/mb/diminuendo.html It strikes me now that no-one then, as far as I remember, displayed the explicit illustrations to Lysistrata: ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beardsley/aubrey/lysistrata/ The devotees of the Summer of Love didn’t have to obscene to be believed.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:10:30 +0000
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