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Snodgrass, Chris was born on April 28, 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Garrett A. and Violet Evelyn (Courtney) Snodgrass.
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Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque
(This book analyzes a wide range of Beardsley's most chara...)
This book analyzes a wide range of Beardsley's most characteristic work. It establishes his assumptions about the underlying nature of his world, and clarifies why so many observers have considered Beardsley's art indispensable to understanding fin-de-siècle Victorian culture. Beardsley's pictures present a dialogue between seemingly polarized impulses: a desire to scandalize and destabilize the old order, and, equally strong, a need to affirm traditional authority. Beardsley depicted various grotesque shapes, caricatures, and mutated figures, including foetus/old man, dwarf, Clown, Harlequin, Pierrot, and dandy (the icon of the Decadent "Religion of Art"). Incarnating the fearful contradictions of decadence, these images served as objective correlatives of some "monstrous" metaphysical contortion. His grotesques suggest the impossibility of resolving these contradictions, even as his elegant designs try formalistically to control and recuperate the disfiguration. As a canonical style, Beardsley's "dandy" sensibility and grotesque caricatures become his means of realigning canonical meaning. Thus, he effects what might be termed a "caricature" of traditional signification. An aesthete devoted to the "Religion of Art", Beardsley, nonetheless, creates a world inescapably "de-formed". He is a Dandy of the Grotesque.
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Chris Snodgrass
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Chris Snodgrass, American English literature educator. Recipient Margaret Farber award Wabash College, 1968, Outstanding Achievement award University Florida, 1990, Outstanding Teacher award, 1994; Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1969. Member National Education Association, Modern Language Association, Eighteen Nineties Society, Victorian Institute, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor summa cum laude, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1969; Master of Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1974.
Career
Graduate assistant, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1969-1972;
interim assistant professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1973-1974;
assistant Professor of English, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1974-1978;
associate professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1978-1996;
professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, since 1996. Chief negotiator United Faculty of Florida, 1981-1984, 93-95, collective bargaining consultant, 1979-1985, 90-95. Collective bargaining consultant National Education Association, Washington, 1995.
Textbook consultant John Wiley & Sons, New York City, 1979-1983.
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Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque
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Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque
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Member National Education Association, Modern Language Association, Eighteen Nineties Society, Victorian Institute, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Carol Lee Greene Ackerman, August 1967 (divorced October 1972). 1 child, Shelley Anne. Married Lesley Church Horton, May 1974 (divorced January 1985).
