Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer

by Paul Edwards

Book Overview

Equally talented as a writer and painter, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative and controversial artistic figures of twentieth-century Britain, renowned as the driving force behind Vorticism, the avant-garde movement that flourished in London before the First World War. This book--the first critical overview of the visual, literary, and philosophical dimensions of Lewis's works--is also the first study to consider them as an integrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300082096
• ISBN13: 9780300082098
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.8" x 10.3"