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When illustrating Wilde’s Salome, Aubrey Beardsley provided its heroine with a shelf of outlandishly anachronistic, yet strangely appropriate reading matter. This newly commissioned collection of essays takes its inspiration from his unexpected inclusion of these books within a book. Many of the contributors address the work of 1890s artists and writers with an eye to striking collaborations between the arts, collaborations that are either authorised or unauthorised, close in time or distant, and range from Arthur Symons drawing on the works of Wagner to Max Beerbohm drawing in a book by Richard Le Gallienne, from Fernand Khnopff working ‘with’ Georges Rodenbach to attempts by Charles Conder’s contemporaries to describe his ‘poetic’ art. Fernand Khnopff, Arthur Symons, Max Beerbohm, John Davidson, Charles Conder, Charles Ricketts, Walt Ruding, Oscar Wilde and, in a memoir by Henry Maas, Ernest Dowson are all discussed, while Aubrey Beardsley and Mary Anderson also feature. The volume reproduces, among its many illustrations, rarely seen and recently rediscovered images and documents generously provided by collectors.
Contributors
Paul van Capelleveen, Alice Condé, Michael Craske, Tom Hubbard, Henry Maas, Simon Alexander Reynolds, Samuel Shaw, and Rachel Sloan.
ISBN: 9781910996744
When illustrating Wilde’s Salome, Aubrey Beardsley provided its heroine with a shelf of outlandishly anachronistic, yet strangely appropriate reading matter. This newly commissioned collection of essays takes its inspiration from his unexpected inclusion of these books within a book. Many of the contributors address the work of 1890s artists and writers with an eye to striking collaborations between the arts, collaborations that are either authorised or unauthorised, close in time or distant, and range from Arthur Symons drawing on the works of Wagner to Max Beerbohm drawing in a book by Richard Le Gallienne, from Fernand Khnopff working ‘with’ Georges Rodenbach to attempts by Charles Conder’s contemporaries to describe his ‘poetic’ art. Fernand Khnopff, Arthur Symons, Max Beerbohm, John Davidson, Charles Conder, Charles Ricketts, Walt Ruding, Oscar Wilde and, in a memoir by Henry Maas, Ernest Dowson are all discussed, while Aubrey Beardsley and Mary Anderson also feature. The volume reproduces, among its many illustrations, rarely seen and recently rediscovered images and documents generously provided by collectors.
Contributors
Paul van Capelleveen, Alice Condé, Michael Craske, Tom Hubbard, Henry Maas, Simon Alexander Reynolds, Samuel Shaw, and Rachel Sloan.
ISBN: 9781910996744