#-ally beardsley

[enchantedbook]

Frontispiece to Chopin’s Third Ballade, 1895 Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley

[burnedgrass]

I love prickly skinny little Stevie Rogers the Lionheart.

The scanner couldn't pick up any gold so i had to use (the sun and) my good old phone camera

Steve's lion heart was mentioned in beardsley's 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆.

[d20outofcontext]

[clocktower-sparrow]

The peacock skirt

[voxratasma]

btw I need Beardsley on gastronauts I am vibrating hoping they'll be on soon. don't even know what absolute hingeless antics they can come up with but I can't wait.

[archiveofphotography]

In 1894, Frederick H. Evans took an iconic photograph of Beardsley adopting the pose of a Notre Dame gargoyle. The artist, then at the apogee of his notoriety, wasn’t an easy subject: “There’s not much to be done with a face like yours,” Evans told him. “You’re only a gargoyle, you know.” The epicene dandy isn’t handsome or alluring in any routine sense. Beardsley wasn’t a ready subject for flattery, but he thrives as a stunning oddity, a sort of elegant monster, razor sharp and deadly thin, an embodiment of both fear and comedy.

Text by is by david rimanelli, Artforum September 2023. The picture is of course Frederick H. Evans’s Beardsley portrait, c.1893.

[ammonitetestpatterns]

[fashionbooksmilano]

The Book of the Rose

Laura Cerwinske

Designed by Jean-Claude Suarès

Thames & Hudson, New York/London 1992, 160 pages, 24x24cm, ISBN 9780 500 015 353

euro 25,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

No other flower has as legendary a history. The rose's dramatic combination of beauty and fragrance has made it a universal obsession, a symbol of spiritual love and physical passion praised in poetry, glorified in art, and venerated in every culture and religion. The Book of the Rose is an exquisite devotion to the flower's ravishing and sometimes audacious presence throughout the centuries. It follows the cultivation of the rose from Persian and Indian gardens to medieval cloisters; from the War of the Roses to the Russian Court of Catherine the Great and the breathtaking gardens of the Empress Josephine. The rich selection of illustrations includes delicate portraits of Indian men and women presenting roses to their lovers, illuminated manuscripts of medieval rose blooms, and paintings that celebrate the rose's beauty - and its erotic intimations - by artists such as Redouté, Fragonard, Renoir, van Gogh, Fantin-Latour, and Beardsley. The Book of the Rose also explores the rose motif in jewelry, porcelain and fabric, on furniture and in fashion, from the textiles of William Morris to the contemporary designs of Ungaro. In addition, a portfolio of glorious rooms illustrates the wide variety of rose themes in interior design. For anyone who has ever grown a rose, given or received a rose, worn a rose pattern or scent, here is a lavish tribute to the world's most celebrated flower.

16/03/24