Tate British Artists: Wyndham Lewis

By Richard Humphreys

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the self-styled 'Enemy', was arguably the most significant British artist-writer of the twentieth century. As well as creating a unique oeuvre of paintings and drawings, he wrote short stories, novels, essays and books on philosophy, literature, politics and cultural criticism. A draughtsman of exceptional skill and verve, he also pioneered cutting-edge modernism in Britain before the First World War, leading the Vorticist movement and editing its typographically startling journal Blast. Lewis, along wth figures including and sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska and poet Ezra Pound, turned London into an international 'vortex' of creative activity. His cultural revolution was brought to a halt by the First World War, in which he served as an artillery officer and as a major official war artist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854375245
• ISBN13: 9781854375247
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary