ABSTRACT
Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Friends and Enemies
part II|74 pages
Media and Mass Society
chapter Chapter 6|16 pages
Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis's Critique of Bergsonism
chapter Chapter 7|18 pages
Modern Times against Western Man: Wyndham Lewis, Charlie Chaplin and Cinema
chapter Chapter 8|18 pages
‘The Best in the Worst of All Possible Worlds': Corporate Patronage in Wyndham Lewis's Late Work
chapter Chapter 9|20 pages
Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh and Inter-war British Youth: Conflict and Infantilism
part III|58 pages
Culture and Modernity