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Evanghelia Stead

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-345-4
Hardback978-1-80511-346-1
PDF978-1-80511-347-8
HTML978-1-80511-349-2
EPUB978-1-80511-348-5

Language

  • English

THEMA

  • ABA
  • AFH
  • AF
  • AFF

BISAC

  • ART015100
  • ART015030
  • ART024000
  • ART009000

Keywords

  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • grotesque
  • media and print culture
  • media performance
  • fin-de-siècle
  • British and comparative art

    Grotesque and Performance in the Art of Aubrey Beardsley

    • Evanghelia Stead (author)
    FORTHCOMING

    Endorsements

    Haunted by illness, Beardsley put all his energy into his art. Nothing that he did was "minor" to him, including his Bon-Mots caricatures and other grotesques. This is the first study to give proper due to works that have often been dismissed as mere jokes or trivia, while demonstrating their connections to better-known examples of his very modern sense of visual performance and self-presentation. At the same time, this book makes clear how influential the aesthetic practices he pioneered were, especially in France and Germany. It is a lively and exuberantly written study that Beardsley himself surely would have enjoyed and from which scholars today have much to learn.

    Margaret D. Stetz

    Professor of Women's Studies, University of Delaware

    Contributors

    Evanghelia Stead

    (author)
    Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

    Evanghelia Stead, former fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin (UVSQ Paris Saclay), a linguist and literary translator. She runs the TIGRE seminar on literature, visual and print culture at the École Normale Supérieure, Department of the Arts, Paris, from 2004. She has been honoured with internationally competitive fellowships (CNRS, EURIAS, IUF, Beinecke, FRIAS) and visiting professorships at Marburg and Verona universities. She has published extensively on fin-de-siècle culture, Greek and Latin myths in modern literature, literature and iconography, books as cultural objects, periodicals, and the literary tradition of ‘the Thousand and Second Night.’ A well-known specialist on fin-de-siècle art and culture, she has developed expertise on reading with images, books as cultural objects, methodologies on periodical studies, and literature-related visual art.