Equally talented as a writer and a painter Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative and controversial figures of the twentieth century British art scene, famous as the driving force behind vorticism, the avant-garde movement that flourished in London before the First World War.
Wyndham Lewis – Painter and Writer is the first critical overview of the visual, literary, and philosophical dimensions of Lewis's work and it is also the first study to consider them as an integrated whole.
Among Lewis's greatest portraits are the iconic figures of his generation such as Augustus John, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Ezra Pound. As a writer, Lewis produced satirical novels, theological fantasies and socio-political treatises of profound impact on his generation, including Tarr, The Apes of God, The Revenge for Love and 'The Human Age'. |
