Comparing Frankenstein And The Yellow Book

The Yellow Book is known as the reflection of the “Yellow Nineties,” an era in the 18th and 19th century in which Victorianism was giving way to Regency style that was elaborate and ornate. This neoclassical style was borrowed from Greek and Egyptian motifs with the attitudes of French influences. The the purpose of this magazine was to be a new type of Journal that was intended to attract attention by its format, and contents with an absolute partition between its literary side and artistic side. The Yellow Book was not only the style of the disreputable and the overdressed Pre-Victorian Regency, but also a represented a wicked and decadent French novel. While the Yellow Book was being criticized by the Victorian Society, Beardsley’s illustrations …show more content…
Rothenstein is a famous printmaker, painter, and art critic, who was born in 1872 and died in 1945. Rothenstien shared an exhibition with Charles Conder at Pere Thomas, France; afterwards he returned to England to work on a series of portraits. In 1896, he created several collections of lithographic portraits depicting both sexes which would appear in The Yellow Book volumes 1 and 4 (Denisoff). A sketches illustrated in “The Yellow Book,” depicts John Davidson, which appeared in volume one (Fig. 1). The sketching illustrates a man in his mid-thirties. He is dressed appropriately for the time period, and is casually relaxing on a sofa. His right hand is in his pocket, and the left hand is stretched out to the left, and disappears off the sketch. Davidsons facial expression is smug; he is bored from sitting while being sketched. His attitude is caught precisely as given to Rothenstien. Davidson is obviously an arrogant man that is to good to waste his time posing for a sketch. Another sketch was of Auguste Rodin who was a sculptor born in 1840 (Fig. 2). Rodin had a great influence in modern art. …show more content…
His illustrations depicted men and women’s sexuality and roles. Due to Beardsley’s works many critics denounced both the text and the illustrations, explicitly Beardsley’s. There reproach was not forthright, they referred to Beardsley’s work in the magazine “Punch,” which is a British comic weekly. As a rebuke to their disapproval, Beardsley created a hoax to put the critics in their place. In the cover design for the Yellow Book in volume III (fig.5), Beardsley designed drawings in uncommon styles under the names of Phillip Broughton and Albert Foschter (McGrath). This illustration is of a young woman sitting in front of a mirror with the drapes behind her slightly opened. She is holding a powder puff outwardly in front of her. As if to remind use symbolically to look at ourselves in the mirror before judging anyone else. The Saturday Review who had found Beardsley artwork as freakish, but found Broughton and Foschter artwork, clever and with merit

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