[Beardsleys] vision is permanently that of a child lying in bed watching his mother dress for a dinner-party. His fantasy hangs this here; tries the effect of that there: everything is a jewel; and everything is a sexual organ. He is allured; yet afraid to touch: driven back on a cold minuteness of detailed attention; and yet passionately curious; with the emotional and involved curiosity children give to sex.Brigid Brophy first published her study of the most intensely and electrically erotic artist in the world in 1968; at the height of her own powers and in the moment of a notable revival of interest - both scholarly and pop-cultural (amid the dandified realm of Carnavy Street) - in Beardsleys work.An infant prodigy; Beardsley retained through the brief years of his adult life the peculiar genius of a precocious child; and Brophy; well-versed in Freudian analyses; adroitly points out the polymorphous perversity of his pictures - that perversity; coupled with his inimitable graphic/monochromatic signature; accounting for why Beardsley; however high-baroque rococo his style; has remained endlessly modern.Black and White is illustrated by 44 reproductions and augmented by a detailed chronology.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Judith OBrienA great critical text-examines teenage engagement very well