Word: wyndham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus in a recent issue of BBC's The Listener, testy, old (64) Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis* rings a knell for his fellow English painters. One reason for the bell's toll, says Lewis, is high taxes which sop up the spare cash of collectors who were once well-to-do. Other reasons for the artist's sad state: his expenses have more than doubled in recent years; dealers demand 337% commission on everything they sell...
...confused with British Humorist and Biographer D. B. Wyndham Lewis (The Hooded Hawk, Francois Villon...
AMERICA AND COSMIC MAN (247 pp.)-Wyndham Lewis-Doubleday...
...readers will find themselves facing this uncomfortable decision again & again as they read (Percy) Wyndham Lewis* passionate hymn of praise to the face of their country. For Lewis, who once edited a ferocious avant-garde magazine entitled Blast, is Britain's quirkiest, most anarchical man of letters, and his point of view is always so unconventional that most people would feel safer at being in his bad books than in his good ones. In The Apes of God (1932), Lewis flailed phony British "culture" with rip-roaring violence; in Time and Western Man (1928) he sought to "heal...
...thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous...