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Wyndham Lewis
1882–1957
A fierce modernist voice with a sharp eye for art, politics, and human vanity, this writer helped launch Vorticism and gave early twentieth-century literature some of its boldest edges. His fiction and essays are often witty, combative, and startlingly original.
2 Audiobooks
Tarr
by Wyndham Lewis
The caliph's design : Architects! Where is your vortex?
by Wyndham Lewis
About the author
Born in 1882 and raised largely in Britain, Wyndham Lewis became one of the most striking and argumentative figures in modernism. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, worked as both a painter and writer, and helped found the Vorticist movement, which tried to capture the energy of the modern industrial world in both art and literature.
He is especially remembered for editing the magazine Blast and for novels such as Tarr and The Apes of God. Alongside fiction, he wrote criticism, cultural commentary, and memoir, building a reputation as a brilliant stylist who was often provocative and deeply at odds with many of his contemporaries.
Lewis also served as an official war artist during the First World War, and his visual art remained an important part of his career. In later life he continued to write even as his eyesight failed, and he died in London in 1957. Today he is remembered as a gifted, difficult, and highly influential presence in twentieth-century British culture.