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Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)
Category: Canadian, British Literature Born: November 18, 1882
Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada Died: March 7, 1957
London, England
Related authors:
Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot
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Blast from the Future
On this day in 1914 the first issue of the radical arts magazine, Blast, was published. This was "A Review of the Great English Vortex," and though neither the magazine nor Vorticism would last very long, the art-literary Establishment was jolted into taking notice -- by the pink cover and disruptive lay-out, if not the modernist manifesto. |
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Blast I
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Blast II
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Blasting and Bombardiering
autobiography |
Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis
by Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer (Editor)
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The Art of Being Ruled
nonfiction |
Time and Western Man
essays |
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"Was he human?"
This article, published in November 2000 in Guardian Unlimited UK, examines Lewis's beliefs and notoriously temperamental disposition, drawing from recent biographies by Paul O'Keefe (Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis) and Paul Edwards (Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer).
"Lewis hated mass culture and feared what we would now call 'dumbing down,' but Edwards also brings out his anticipations of pop art, postmodernism and globalisation. Lewis was a genius of multiple self-contradictions, who deserves to be nobody's ideological Aunt Sally. To quote another not quite fashionable figure, Harold Bloom, great writers are subversive of all values, both ours and their own." |  | The Art and Ideas of Wyndham Lewis
Features a biography which examines Wyndham's life, the ideas which influenced his works and the Voriticist movement, and the author's place in literary and artistic history:
"He is now quite widely acknowledged as England's greatest and most original artist of the first half of the twentieth century, but his writing is more difficult to evaluate. Lewis does not provide an all-encompassing solution to the problem of existence although he seems quite confident to have assumed that role. Those who seek in Lewis a record of devotion to a party line - or even any consistent line - will be disappointed." | | Vorticism
A concise synopsis of the vorticist movement led (and dominated) by Wyndham Lewis in the early 20th century. Features information on the origins and influences of the movement, biographical details about its key figures, and crib notes on related artistic styles, including cubism and futurism.
"Although Cubism was the root of the Vorticists style it was essentially the Futurist idea of a dynamic art capturing the modernity of the era which most inspired the movement. [...] It was poet Ezra Pound's strong vocal and literary support for the Vorticist ideals however which were the prime source of inspiration for the artists. Pound spoke of a point of maximum energy and a whirlpool of human imagination, and stressed its ideas were literary as well as artistic." | |
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