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brings togethermany of his most brilliant remarks.It is illustrated with a selection of thegrotesque drawings he made for aseries of books of anecdotes aboutgreat wits of the past—a commissionthat he relished and that inspired someof his most delightful images.  \nBONS MOTS'&GROTESQUES  \n100人  \nhttps://archive.org/details/aubreybeardsleyb0000bear  \nUBREY BEARDSLEY DURING HIS BRIEFlife was recognized not only as an artistbut also as a wit.Like his friend MaxBeerbohm,and many of the other young men ofthe 18gos,he modelled his conversational per-formance,to some extent,on the great exampleof Oscar Wilde.Beardsley knew Wilde well andowed him much.It was his brilliant illustrationsto the English translation of Wilde's play Salomethat confirmed his reputation as an artist of dar-ing originality and Decadent allure.  \nThe actress Elizabeth Robins,on meetingBeardsley at lunch,considered him the‘uncertainghost of Oscar,minus the brains,imagination,and craft,and plus a kind of tremulous sweet-ness.'Frank Harris,though,who knew both menrather better,reversed the equation.He felt thatBeardsley's wit was touched with a distinctivelymodern hardness and self-assertion that,in fact,came to influence Oscar.  \nBeardsley said many arresting things.Friendssuch as Ada Leverson(Wilde's adored ‘Sphinx')noted down some of them.And it seems possi-ble that he himself planned to gather a collectionof his own 'Table Talk'.Certainly his some-timepublisher,John Lane,included a dozen of hisapercus,under this title,in a posthumous volumeof Beardsley's literary work.  \nBeardsley,for his part,was familiar withthe idea of putting witticisms into book-form.Almost his first commission as an illustratorwas to produce for J.M.Dent a collection of'grotesques'to decorate the pages of a series ofpocket-anthologies of'bon-mots'by the celebrat-ed wits of the previous century.  \nBeardsley adored the work—not leastbecause it provided a relief from his other,con-current,Dent commission,for a huge number ofmock-mediaeval illustrations to Malory's MorteDarthur.With the ‘grotesques'he was able to lethis imagination run free.Anything was possible:satyrs,femmes fatales,dandies,thugs,Pierrots,ballerinas,spiders,cherubs,cats,caricatures(ofWhistler,Moliere and others),skeletons,bugs,  \nbeauties,imps,pimps,whores.He could experi-ment with stylistic tropes—from his calligraphic‘japonesque'line to massed blocks of solid blackand white.He could try out the effects of fantas-tical invention and suggestive realism.He couldindulge his fascination with the decadent and theerotic.It was work that both honed his skill,andinitiated lines of artistic enquiry that he wouldevolve during the coming years.  \nOver the course of eighteen months heproduced some I3o drawings.They were pub-lished in 1893-4 across the first three volumesof Dent's series:Bon-Mots of Sydney Smith &R.B.Sheridan,Bon-Mots of Samuel FooteTheodore Hook,and Bon-Mots of CharlesLamb Douglas Jerrold.Some of the pictureswere given a full page,others—much reducedin size—dotted the margins,and filled theend-spaces.  \nThe trivial nature of the books meant thatreview coverage was limited,but the qualityand invention of the ‘grotesques'has won forthem the enduring admiration of Beardsley en-thusiasts.They are amongst the happiest and  \nmost distinctive of his productions.This volumebrings together a selection of them,with thefirst comprehensive gathering of Beardsley's ownbracing bon-mots(drawn from his conversation,his press-interviews,his letters,and his writ-ings)in a celebration of a unique and brilliantsensibility.","cbCairJv4pspdyco","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairJv4pspdyco","pdf",2712654,100,"English","# Aubrey Beardsley as a Wit and Artist\n## Grotesques for the Dent Pocket-Anthologies\n## Publication, Style, and Lasting Influence","[{\"question\":\"How does Beardsley’s reputation appear in this anthology text?\",\"answer\":\"He is presented as a wit as well as an artist, valued for modern sharpness and 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