ID: 1555
Wyndham Lewis and the Art of Modern War.
CORBETT, David Peters (editor)

Category: Art, Biography

Place/Publisher/Date:
Cambridge University Press. 1998.

Description: First edition; 8vo; original boards and illustrated dust jacket. A reassessment of Wyndham Lewis, focusing on the effect of the First World War on his thought and practice as artist and writer, challenging the view that Lewis was a mass of 'unbound impulses released from the rationalising censorship of a respectable consciousness'. The contributors argue for a more nuanced and historically aware view of Lewis and his work. The essays examine First World War art, his post-war politics and aesthetics, the new turn his painting and thought took in the 1930s, and the connections between modernism, war, and aggression. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

ISBN:0521561183

Price £45.00