The Same Old Solotaire
Peter Wollen, 4 July 1996
‘Salome’ and ‘Under the Hill’
by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.
Creation, 123 pp., £7.95, April 1996,1 871592 12 7 Show More
by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.
Creation, 123 pp., £7.95, April 1996,
Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque
by Chris Snodgrass.
Oxford, 338 pp., £35, August 1995,0 19 509062 4 Show More
by Chris Snodgrass.
Oxford, 338 pp., £35, August 1995,
“... and Warhol. Beardsley had no use for futurism or the machine aesthetic or abstract art. He loathed Turner, the founder of the colouristic sublime, comparing him to Antoine Wiertz, the Belgian painter of huge melodramatic historical and religious scenes. The Sixties can also be seen as marking the end of classic Modernism. This is not to say that Beardsley ... ”