Percy Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-11-18 – 1957-03-07 ) was an English polemicist, novelist, essayist, critic and Vorticist painter. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Art of Being Ruled (1926) 2 Criticism 3 External links // Sourced 1. Laughter is the Wild Body's...
In his long life Wyndham Lewis produced a remarkable quantity and variety of artistic work. He began his career as a painter and became one of the greatest English artists of the century, known for his abstract vorticist work as well as his...
Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian-born British painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the Vorticists' journal, BLAST (two numbers, 1914-15). His novels include his...
* A mixed bag, and biography has never been my bag (history is a broad church but my preference is for the full choir rather than the solo voice). Still we have got some potent persons here, big in their vocations and makers of...
Author Wyndham Lewis sought to publicize his book 'The Apes of God' by antagonizing the very people he had initially depended upon to bring it to publication. Lewis wrote the book as a satire of the self-promoting tactics of the modernists, but used the...
In the following excerpt, Sherry examines Lewis's visual art as well as his body of written work to support his claim that Lewis failed to present a philosophically cohesive, unified body of work.
