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The #ABLibrary includes a growing set of references to non-English sources such as Alexandre de Riquer's article in the Catalan Art Nouveau journal Joventut.
https://t.co/Ma0wBv3HLA
Welcome to your Saturday Femme Fatale Generator.
Whose is your favourite Venus?
🤍 Barthélemy Prieur, c. 1600
🖤 James McNeil Whistler, 1859
🤍 Aubrey Beardsley, 1896
🖤 Charles Shannon, 1898-1904
Welcome to your Wednesday Beardsley Man Generator.
Who is your favourite homme fatale?
🖤Perseus
🖤Syrian Captain
🖤Valmont
🖤Beardsley
Welcome to your Saturday Femme Fatale Generator.
Whose is your favourite Princess with the Head?
🔪 Moreau, 1876
🔪 Beardsley, 1893
🔪 Bonnaud, 1900
🔪 Marcel-Beronneau, (? date)
Dear Beardsleyites,
we are trying to build an online library of Beardsley-related treasures.
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Send us links to your favourite open-access resources on Beardsley, Decadence, Art Nouveau, fin de siecle...
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Let’s keep the Beardsley Craze alive and well 🔥🖤
We have a webpage.
& a draft programme.
Headlined by the most wonderful
@Kate_Hext
& featuring true Beardsleyites: @Jo_Thorne3,
@mdpotolsky, @sasha_weirdsley, @SirDarcy, @JaneDesmarais..
The website & creative part are evolving
but here is a taster:
https://t.co/hIJwxBjoxt
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I looked a long time, but my mind, or my soul, would come to no state of coherence. I was fascinated and overcome, but yet full of stubbornness and resistance'.
D.H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, 1911
"When Oscar Wilde and he were walking along one of the Grands
Boulevards, the streetwalkers stood on chairs to catch a glimpse of the notorious degenerate Wilde and the handsome young man with a lock of grey hair amid the black". Sjeng Scheijen, Diaghilev: A Life. #apocrypha
While admiring the Moon tonight, be alert to a possible apparition of a vaguely familiar 1890s face.
AB, The Woman in the Moon, 1894
#Beardsley #Wilde #Salome #BlueMoon