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Beardsley 150

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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898)
Aubrey Beardsley sesquicentennial

While Beardsley’s brief career was cut short aged 25 by his death from tuberculosis, he made an impact as a brilliant and daring innovator who often caused controversy by using satirical imagery to push gender and sexual boundaries.

On view at the Grolier Club in New York City from September 8 through November 12, 2022 is ‘Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young’—an exhibition drawn from materials in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection in the UD Library, Museums and Press.

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Début du siècle

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Memorabilia of Oscar Wilde’s Friends From World War I

Oscar Wilde, essential figure of the fin de siècle (end of the century) though he was, joked with Robert Ross that he would not outlive it. Oscar, who was usually right about everything, died in November 1900.

He left behind friends who were to belong to a new movement—an artistic circle that I might call the début du siècle, who inherited a world of change that was soon to become a world at war.

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