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Copyright

Evanghelia Stead

Published On

2024-10-11

Page Range

pp. 203–216

Language

  • English

Print Length

14 pages

Conclusion and Aftermath

Chapter of: Grotesque and Performance in the Art of Aubrey Beardsley(pp. 203–216)
Conclusion and Aftermath. The book posits Beardsley as a central figure in sophisticated creation, the interrelation of the arts, and intertwining of modes of expression. He reverted customary relations between art and literature, and fostered innovating tactics through which Decadence paved the way to the historical avant-garde. The conclusion makes explicit five principles used in this book and applicable beyond Beardsley's case: a motif's aesthetic evolution (beyond biography); the reversal of conventional standards of “major” and “minor;”comparison within a wider context (in contrast to monographs); the weight of media-driven modernity and burgeoning print culture; and the power of widely circulating images in disseminating an artist’s work. It shows how Beardsley's oeuvre was furthered in three-dimensional stage and screen performances. It ends with a call to reassess his legacy in a rich wake of related artists’ production.

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.