Wyndham Lewis: Portraits

Edwards, Paul (with Richard Humphreys)
ISBN: 9781584233206 Category:

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ART

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.
pp. 112 illusts First Edition #201024 (Fine except for small residue of price-sticker on cover.)

Additional Information

AuthorEdwards, Paul (with Richard Humphreys)
Number of pages112
PublisherGingko Press
Year Published2008
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

Near Fine

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