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 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.

The Vorticists
The Vorticists

Author: Mark Antliff

Publisher: Tate Publishing (CA)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781854379788

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The first exhibition in Italy dedicated to Vorticism, Britain's contribution to the visual avant-gardes that flourished in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Its distinctive figurative abstraction was a London-based Anglo-American response to Cubism and Futurism. Led by poet Ezra Pound and by artist and writer Wyndham Lewis Vorticism flared up between 1913 and 1918.

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

Author: Andrzej Gąsiorek

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781409400547

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Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis, this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and the links between Lewis's writing and painting are explored in the context of other key figures of the twentieth century.

Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde
Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde

Author: Paul Peppis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-02-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780521662383

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Accounts of the 'historical avant-garde' and of 'high modernism' often celebrate the former for its revolutionary aesthetics or denigrate the latter for its 'proto-fascist' politics. In Literature, Politics and the English Avant-Garde, Paul Peppis shows how neither interpretation explains the writings of avant-gardists in early twentieth-century England. Peppis reads texts by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Dora Marsden, and Ezra Pound alongside English political discourse between the death of Victoria and the end of the Great War. He traces the impact of nation and empire on the avant-garde, arguing that Vorticism, England's foremost avant-garde movement, used nationalism to advance literature and avant-garde literature to advance empire. Peppis's study demonstrates that these ambitions were enabled by a period conception of nationality as an essence and construct. By recovering these neglected aspects of avant-garde politics, Peppis's book opens important avenues for assessing modernist politics after the war.

Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis

Author: Andrzej Gasiorek

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0748685693

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Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics, and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism's key creative artists and a unique twentieth-century thinker. This book offers a scholarly companion to his written work.