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,
“... is not to say that Beardsley should be seen through the Post-Modern lens of deconstruction, as Chris Snodgrass proposes in his densely packed and theoretically sophisticated study of Beardsley. Derrida paradoxically provides Snodgrass with authority to praise Beardsley for creating a world ‘where meaning ... ”