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| Title | : | Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300082096 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
A study of Wyndham Lewis, equally talented as a writer and a painter. He also discusses Lewis's fascist sympathies in the 1930s.. Providing a critical overview of the visual, literary and philosophical dimensions of Lewis's work, Paul Edwards also considers them as an integrated whole
"A clear gaze on a murky fellow" according to Jeff Bursey. Every reader knows of authors who were all the rage when they were alive and publishing, only to be forgotten or relegated to obscurity upon their death, if not before. They disappear for decades or generations, admired or consulted by those few who read in specialized fields; or they are. "Best book on Wynham Lewis" according to Rick. This is by far the best book on Wyndham Lewis as a painter, with the largest number of high-quality color illustrations available in any publication. The large-format catalog is a true labor of love; the layout and illustrations are stunningly beautiful. I have no doubt that this will bec
Edwards, however, has a less acute eye for visuals. Author Edwards lectures in the English department of Bath Spa University in England. The author tends to skirt the erotic implications of paintings like The Pole Vault or a suggestion of oral sex in 1933's The Convalescent, as he does with a series of nude drawings, which may form the basis for Lewis's greatest achievement in art, Lewis's portraits of Pound, Eliot and Joyce. His strength is in rather dense analyses of Lewis's writings; not as fun to read as Kenner, Edwards fully confronts Lewis's often ghastly anti-Semitism, a fault Lewis famously shared with Eliot and Pound, although past critics' apologetics have sometimes obscured this. Well explicated over the years by critics like Hugh Kenner and Frederic Jameson, Lewis's harsh satiric novels like Apes of God and Monstre Gai still resonate with a vigor that places them above mere experiments. Sometimes the works are read curiously: a 1912 pen and ink, Two Mechanics,
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