May 27, 2020
Illustrating at a Social Distance: On Beardsley, Wilde, and ‘Salome’
Maybe Beardsley’s illustrations are divergent because he, like everybody else, couldn’t quite understand what Wilde was going for in the play.
Maybe Beardsley’s illustrations are divergent because he, like everybody else, couldn’t quite understand what Wilde was going for in the play.
Drawing is a skill like reading, like writing, which can be learned by anyone regardless of talent. It is a mental discipline.
In insisting on an anatomically correct Charlotte, E. B. White was playing with fire: People hate real spiders.