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LATEST NEWS:
FROM NOW ON, THE LATEST NEWS ON THE WL PROJECT AND RELATED TOPICS WILL BE POSTED
IN OUR TUMBLR BLOG AND IN OUR TWITTER ACCOUNT. PLEASE, FOLLOW US.
Welcome
Wyndham Lewis was one of the great Modernist artists and writers. He is best known for the magazine Blast, the art movement Vorticism, and for his brilliant satirical fiction. A painter and writer, Lewis was during his lifetime (1882-1957) a prophet of the global society which the WorldWideWeb signifies by its very existence.
These pages are intended to guide anybody who wants to know about his work.
Wyndham Lewis Project
The Wyndham Lewis Project was a joint university project based at the University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, together with Nottingham Trent University and the University of Plymouth in England.Funded by the Ministerio Español de Ciencia y Tecnología – the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology – as project BFF2002 – 02842 (2002-2006).
Wyndham Lewis Society
The society publishes the Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies and the Lewisletter.
The Journal is a refereed academic journal, to which you are invited to contribute.
Published numbers are described here.
Contact here
Lewisletter
The Society also publishes the Lewisletter, a lively annual which brings news of books, exhibitions, reviews and controversy. When you subscribe to the Journal, you will also receive the Lewisletter.
Wyndham Lewis Trust
The Trust manages copyright. For all enquiries concerning reproduction of images and text contact the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
Webmaster: Almudena Fernández Fontecha
LATEST NEWS/POSTS:
TEN THINGS you THOUGHT you knew about WYNDHAM LEWIS
by Alan Munton
1. Should he be called Percy Wyndham Lewis?
2. So where did the name come from?
3. Was Lewis born on a yacht in the Bay of Fundy, off Nova Scotia?
4. Did Ezra Pound edit BLAST?
5. Was Lewis an anti-semite?
6. And what did Lewis say about Jews?
7. Why did Lewis call his 1939 pro-Jewish book The Jews Are They Human?
8. What were Lewis’s politics?
9. Who invented the phrase “the global village”?
10. Was Wyndham Lewis a great twentieth century artist?
Find the answers in our Tumblr blog.
THE BIG DEBATE
Paul Edwards and James Fox
In 2011, BBC4 broadcast British Masters, a series about British art in the twentieth century. In the first programme, presenter James Fox discussed Wyndham Lewis.
There were many inaccuracies, and the programme caused offence when Dr Fox handled Lewis's brain, which is preserved in a medical museum.
A debate followed. This website responded vigorously with a number of critical comments. Then the Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies published two definitive essays.
We republish these essays here. The first is by leading Lewis scholar Paul Edwards, the second a reply by James Fox.
Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies
Editor: Dr Andrzej Gasiorek
Assistant editors: Dr Anna Burrells and Dr Nathan Waddell
The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies (formerly The Wyndham Lewis Annual) is the primary journal devoted to the study of the literature, painting, and cultural criticism of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).
Articles considering Lewis's work in any respect will be gratefully received. To submit, or to discuss an idea for, an article, please contact Andrzej Gasiorek.
The Journal may be obtained through membership of the Wyndham Lewis Society. To join the Society, please contact its Secretary, Nathan Waddell.
Further information here.
REVIEW: "The Vorticists" at the Nasher Gallery, by Max Brzezinski, is here.
EXHIBITION: 'The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York 1914-1918'.This exhibition is at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, from 29 January until 15 May 2011.REVIEWS from Italian newspapers are here (5Mb).
EXHIBITION: 'The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York 1914-1918'.This exhibition is at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, from 29 January until 15 May 2011.
REVIEWS from Italian newspapers are here (5Mb).
First Major Wyndham Lewis Exhibition in Spain:
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Fundación Juan March
Madrid, 5 February -16 May 2010:
Alan Munton's article on this event in Lewis in Spain section
The art criticism that Wyndham Lewis wrote for The Listener between 1946 and 1951 is available here.
This is a major editing project – 40,000 words, 200 images, 275 artists.
An overview of postwar British art from the BBC’s cultural weekly, as seen by one of the great art critics of the last century.
The Listener project is based at the University of Exeter, UK, and at the University of La Rioja, Spain. It was funded by an AHRC Art History award for 2008-2009.
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