In master's thesis, I explore the motif of a woman in the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley, made for the influential English periodical of the time, The Yellow Book. I am interested in the various influences that determined Beardsley's art, the artists and the artistic currents that characterized him, and how those, along with social and personal circumstances, formed a specific type of woman in Beardsley's illustrations. How his rendering of motif of a woman in the illustrations for The Yellow Book differs from women in the illustrations for Arthur's death (L'Morte d’Arthur) from 1892, Salome (1984), Lyzistrata (1896) and The Rape of the Lock (1897)? What are the characteristics of a typical Beardsley’s depiction of a woman in The Yellow Book and what are the causes for them?
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