Wyndham Lewis Portraits

Wyndham Lewis Portraits PDF Author: Paul Edwards
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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

Wyndham Lewis Portraits

Wyndham Lewis Portraits PDF Author: Paul Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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

Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis PDF Author: Paul Edwards
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis PDF Author: Paul Edwards
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN: 9780300082098
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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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.

Self Condemned

Self Condemned PDF Author: Wyndham Lewis
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459704908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Self Condemned, originally published in 1954, tells the story of Professor Renarding and his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco, a fictionalized version of Toronto, following Ren resignation as an academic in London, England. Reduced to a position at the second-rate University of Momaco, Rennd Essie suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien city. The novel, a devastating, disturbing satire of life in wartime Canada, explores the difficulty individuals face as they struggle to adapt to new surroundings while preserving their sense of wholeness, as well as the bond that develops between people during a shared experience of isolation. .

The Wild Body

The Wild Body PDF Author: Wyndham Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Blast

Blast PDF Author: Wyndham Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged

Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged PDF Author: Gordon Hughes
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064312
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Much of how World War I is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and considerable destruction that marked the conflict. Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged examines how the physical and psychological devastation of the war altered the course of twentieth-century artistic Modernism. Following the lives and works of fourteen artists before, during, and after the war, this book demonstrates how the conflict and the resulting trauma actively shaped artistic production. Featured artists include Georges Braque, Carlo Carrà, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Fernand Léger, Wyndham Lewis, André Masson, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Nash, and Oskar Schlemmer. Materials from the Getty Research Institute’s special collections—including letters, popular journals, posters, sketches, propaganda, books, and photographs—situate the works of the artists within the historical context, both personal and cultural, in which they were created. The volume accompanies a related exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute Gallery from November 25, 2014, to April 19, 2015.

The Vorticists

The Vorticists PDF Author: Mark Antliff
Publisher: Tate Publishing (CA)
ISBN: 9781854379788
Category : Vorticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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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.

Bill Brandt, Portraits

Bill Brandt, Portraits PDF Author: Bill Brandt
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Some Sort Of Genius

Some Sort Of Genius PDF Author: Paul O'Keeffe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446425371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 873

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Painter and draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer and critic, Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorisation. He launched the only twentieth-century English avant garde movement, Vorticism, in 1914. His first novel, Tarr, was published in 1918. During the intervening World War, as an artillery officer at the third battle of Ypres, he gained his 'political education under fire'. Anti-war books of the 1930s argued against what he regarded as a war-mongering left-wing orthodoxy, and presented the case for the right. This placed him in the position somewhere between an advocate of appeasement and what looked uncomfortably like a Nazi sympathizer. Despite an admission, in 1939, that he had been wrong about Hitler, his reputation never recovered from the stigma of Fascism.After the Second World War, spent in penniless and bitter exile in Canada, he returned to London and, in the last decade of his life, received some measure of the success and recognition he had been denied for so long. It coincided, tragically, with the realisation that he was going blind. Visual expression denied him, he devoted all his remaining energies to writing. Seven books in as many years, written in laborious longhand when he was unable to see the