Wyndham Lewis And The Avant Garde

Author : Toby Foshay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509160
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde written by Toby Foshay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Edwards
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300082098
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyndham Lewis written by Paul Edwards and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Edwards
Publisher : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyndham Lewis written by Paul Edwards and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrzej Gasiorek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134788991
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity written by Andrzej Gasiorek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathan O’Donnell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789627486
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage written by Nathan O’Donnell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyndham Lewis was both a serious proponent and forthright critic of modernism. His assault upon his contemporaries foreshadowed the twenty-first century scholarly interest in the networks, professions, and coteries – rather than the myths and heroics – of modernism. Lewis, after a long period of neglect, now sits increasingly at the heart of a revised field of modernist studies. This book explores Lewis’s cultural criticism as a valuable body of writing which posed questions that have yet to be answered about subsidy and the function of the artist, about professionalism and ethics, about who should pay for the arts, and what the artist’s obligations should be in return. It is the first book-length study of this body of critical writing, through which Lewis articulated the central and most lasting of his critical preoccupations: the question of how the work of the artist is to be valued, and the artist to be paid, in a professionalised society. This book makes an important contribution to the long overdue reassessment of a complex, contrarian figure, spanning the disciplines of literature and the visual arts, who asked pressing questions about the role and status of the artist, and ultimately about the value (economic, civic, political) of the work of art.

Author : William Charles Wees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vorticism and the English Avant-garde written by William Charles Wees and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyndham Lewis Portraits written by Paul Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses exclusively on the unique talents of iconoclastic artist-writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) as a portraitist.

Author : Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191624861
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tarr written by Wyndham Lewis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.' Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral of militaristic self-destruction. When both become interested in the same two women - Bertha Lunken, a conventional German, and Anastasya Vasek, the ultra-modern international devotee of 'swagger sex' - Wyndham Lewis sets the stage for a scathing satire of national and social pretensions, the fraught relationship between men and women, and the incompatibilities of art and life. In his introduction and notes Scott W. Klein explores Lewis's stylistic experimentation within the context of avant-garde movements in painting, and offers new insights into Tarr as a work of mordent wit and enduringly ferocious irony. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Vincent Sherry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360311
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism written by Vincent Sherry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, the English modernists use the material of aesthetic experience to prove truths of human nature, making art the basis for social values and recommendations. This sensibility enriches their work, shaping the varied textures of Pound's Cantos and the complex designs of Lewis's painting and fiction, but their mastery of avant-garde techniques endorses the authority of an antique state. Sherry returns their "totalitarian synthesis" of art and politics to its originating moment, following its trajectory from 1910 to the eve of World War II.

Author : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521662383
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde written by Paul Peppis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.