Illustrations for Le Morte D'Arthur

by Aubrey Beardsley

Excellent Book

Genres: Art, Arthurian, Mythology, British Literature

172 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1972

About the author

Highly individual black and white, often erotic drawings of British illustrator Aubrey Vincent Beardsley typified the art nouveau style.

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley identifies an English author. Japanese woodcuts influenced his executions in ink; he emphasized the grotesque, the decadent. This figure led in the aesthetic movement, which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley significantly contributed to the development of the poster movement despite the brevity of his career before tuberculosis caused his early death.

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Reviews

[Mir · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection, complete as far as I can tell, of illustrations Beardsley did for an edition of Le Morte de Arthur. It is not, however, a facsimile of the original book -- most of the text is not reproduced, except where incorporated with images. So, a bit frustratingly, you often get the first page of a chapter because it has a border or illustrated capital, but then don't have the rest of the story.