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The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897, was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s. It was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with French fiction of the period.

Authors found within its pages during the three years of its existence include:
Max Beerbohm, "Baron Corvo," Henry James, H. G. Wells and William Butler Yeats.

...in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a major corrupting influence on Dorian is "the yellow book" which Lord Henry sends over to amuse him after the suicide of his first love. This "yellow book" is understood by critics to be À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a representative work of Parisian decadence that heavily influenced British aesthetes like Beardsley. Such books in Paris were wrapped in yellow paper to alert the reader to their lascivious content...

So here's the deal:

You are an artist/designer.

You have to put together the cover for VOLUME 14 of THE YELLOW BOOK.

It must retain the sense of Aestheticism and Decadence, and yet be of its time.

I'm very interested to see what happens with this one.



... i couldn't stop thinking about the King in Yellow with this task :)
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Ludjak....nemam sta drugo reci!

...i gle ga - Indosh! :lmao: