Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde
Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde

Author: Toby Foshay

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780773509160

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It has always been difficult to determine Wyndham Lewis's position within the Modernist movement. Despite his status as one of the "big five" modernists -- along with W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce -- Lewis is the least read and least understood of significant modern English writers. At once both modernist and anti-modernist -- Lewis was a founder, before the First World War, of Vorticism and a critic, after the war, of what he considered modernism's sell-out to the art establishment -- he has remained the most obscure and the least easily categorized of the canonical modernists.

Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis

Author: Paul Edwards

Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 9780300082098

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Wyndham Lewis was equally talented as a writer and a painter. Providing an overview of the visual, literary and philosophical dimensions of Lewis's work, Edwards also considers them as an integrated whole. He also discusses Lewis's fascist sympathies.

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity
Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity

Author: Andrzej Gasiorek

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1134788924

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Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity
Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity

Author: Dr Nathan Waddell

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1409479013

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Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Wyndham Lewis Portraits
Wyndham Lewis Portraits

Author: Paul Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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This title focuses exclusively on the unique talents of iconoclastic artist-writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) as a portraitist.

Routledge Library Editions: Wyndham Lewis
Routledge Library Editions: Wyndham Lewis

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-30

Total Pages: 1484

ISBN-13: 1000808009

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The 3 volumes in this set, originally published between 1963 and 1980 include the first biography of Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957) by the award winning biographer, Jeffrey Meyers, and 2 volumes edited by personal friends of Wyndham Lewis which give a unique insight into the man, his output and his concern with the conflict between the artist-intellectual and the rest of society. Lewis is arguably one of the major intellectual figures of the 20th Century. Equally talented as a writer and painter, Lewis was innovative and controversial and well-known as the driving force behind Vorticism, the avant-garde movement that flourished in London before the First World War. A versatile painter, Lewis’ literary output was prodigous and he mastered a variety of genres – novels, poetry, philosophy, sociology, travel writing, literary and art critic. A leading revolutionary in British painting and a writer of creative genius, Wyndham Lewis also knew personally Augustus John, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, who called Lewis ‘the most fascinating personality of our time’.

Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957
Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Wyndham Lewis could be described as a "single-handed avant-garde movement". An accomplished artist, Lewis found 'An accomplished ed Vorticism', the only English avant-garde movement, and was the author of more than 50 books. In addition he issued manifestoes, edited and published journals and was responsible for a fascinating and strikingly varied body of work that runs from his vorticist, Cubo-futurist and abstract compositions to his most refined portraits. A pioneer of abstraction, war artist, major portraitist, novelist, essayist, editor andcritic, Wyndham Lewis is one of the key figures in European modernism of the first half of the 20th century. Exhibition: Juan March Foundation, Madrid (5.02. - 16.03.2010)