Wyndham Lewis Portraits - Softcover

Edwards, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584233206 ISBN 13: 9781584233206

Publisher: Gingko Press, 2009

Synopsis

Although under-recognized in his lifetime, Wyndham Lewis was one of the most important figures in 20th century British art. He was best known for being a modernist activist, an avant-garde artist, an essayist and novelist. But he was also a remarkable portrait painter whose works bristle with the combined energy and charisma of maker and subject.

This catalogue to the British National Portrait Gallery exhibition of Lewis's portraits presents a collection of work that has never before been exhibited (or published) together.

Whilst Lewis completed a number of commissioned portraits, his best works are those he created of his artistic peers: James Joyce, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound, Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot and Naomi Michison to name a few. The majority of these works are presented here and all demonstrate Lewis's resolutely non-naturalistic, visually complex style.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Edwards is Professor of English and History of Art at Bath University Spa and has been described in the Guardian as one of 'the world's leading Lewis scholars'. His book Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer (Yale University Press, 2000) is the most comprehensive study of Lewis yet written.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gingko Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1584233206
• ISBN 13: 9781584233206
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112