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Copyright

Evanghelia Stead

Published On

2024-10-11

Page Range

pp. 167–202

Language

  • English

Print Length

36 pages

5. Paris Performance Alive and Dead

Chapter of: Grotesque and Performance in the Art of Aubrey Beardsley(pp. 167–202)
Chapter 5, Paris Performance Alive and Dead, explores Beardsley's reception in periodicals and the press in France with new first-hand evidence. It highlights the reproduction and diffusion of Beardsley's images beyond textual comments favoured by previous studies, and shows their flexibility and sway. Recalling Beardsley’s multiple connections to France, it follows his performance though the Montmartre journal Le Courrier français, his deliberate choice of images that had shocked the English public, his adaptability, and influence on French artists. It highlights the paradox in the relations between Le Courrier français and the Savoy instead of the expected Parisian aesthete reviews. It shows how tribute to the deceased artist mingles with chauvinistic anecdotes borrowed from the English press and how, adding to his gallery, the French reviews stage-manage dramatized images of Beardsley against his wish.

Contributors

Evanghelia Stead

(author)
Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5737-7947

Linguist, literary translator and honorary Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, Evanghelia Stead is Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin (UVSQ Paris-Saclay). In 2023 she brought the TIGRE seminar on literature, visual and print culture to UVSQ, which she had been running in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure (Department of the Arts) since 2004. She has been honoured internationally with visiting professorships at Marburg and Verona Universities, and won numerous sponsored research fellowships (CNRS, EURIAS/FRIAS, IUF, Beinecke). She has published extensively on fin-de-siècle culture, periodicals, history of the book, literature and iconography, Greek and Latin myths in modern literature, and the literary tradition of ‘the Thousand and Second Night.’ A well-known specialist on fin-de-siècle art and culture, she has also developed methodologies for periodical studies, expertise on reading books as cultural objects, reading with images, and through literature-related visual art.