Aubrey Beardsley Imp of the Perverse Author:Stanley Weintraub At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry was to call Aubrey Beardsley, was an obscure clerk in a London insurance firm. Three years later he was the most notorious ? and perhaps the most influential ? artist in England. Here, then, is the marvelous boy?he died at twenty-five?as human being and as complex and tragic genius, in th... more »e rich context of 150 examples of his graphic art. The original version of Aubrey Beardsley was a National Book Award nominee.« less