The Yellow Book was a British literature and art magazine, which appeared from 1894 to 1897. Their name leads itself ago from a "Yellow Book", which plays the portrait of the Dorian Gray (1890) of OSCAR savage in the novel as a book with spoiling effect a role.

Into the portrait of the Dorian Gray the "Yellow Book" is described as work from the "French Symbolistenschule". Often it with that 1884 published work rebours (dt. against the line) by Joris Karl Huysmans directly set. Wild called the "Yellow Book" however pure invention. The book describes the fall of a young Parisers, which wants to experience all passions and ways of thinking. Dorian Gray identifies itself finally with the hero and begins his immoral Eskapaden.

The literature magazine

The magazine The Yellow Book was published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane and was the clay-indicating medium of the British Well-known authors such as max of Beerbohm or Henry James wrote for the magazine, in addition, texts of young authors such as Arnold Bennett, Charlotte Mew and Maurice Baring were published. The style screen end Illustrator was Aubrey Beardsley, which created among other things also the illustrations to OSCAR of game Salome. In Germany Beardsleys had devoured, illustrations large influence on art nouveau, oriented at the Japonismus.

When OSCAR savage 1895 was accused of Unzucht, one found a French novel with yellow cover with it, of which the press spoke as "Yellow Book". The connection Beardsleys with savage was sufficient that in the consequence stones a throwing mobilization before the office of the publisher appeared and several other authors Beardsleys demanded the dismissal. After its way course the success of the magazine diminished, until it was adjusted 1897 after 13 expenditures.

Beardsley created the magazine The Savoy with others, for whose first title page he drew a Cherubim, which uriniert on a copy of The Yellow Book.

Literature

• Patrick Bade: Aubrey Beardsley, New York: Park clay/tone Pree Ltd., 2001.
• OSCAR savage: The portrait of the Dorian Gray, Leipzig, Reclam 2000, epilog of Ulrich refuge man.

"Yellow" in the journalism

The English expression "yellow press" for boulevard press deduces itself not from the "Yellow Book", but from the contemporaneous, American Comic The Yellow Kid.

Related links

• Beardsleys illustrations for The Yellow Book
• English side to The Yellow Book

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