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Percy Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis

 

Early Days:

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English Painter and author. He was a co-founder of Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticist, Blast. His novels include his pre-World War 1-era novel Tarr, and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising of The Childermass, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trail of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career up-to-date.


Career:    

 Mainly residing in England from 1908, Lewis published his first work in Ford Maddox Ford's TheEnglish Review in 1909. He was an unlikely founder-member of the Camden Town Group in 1911. In 1912 he exhibited his Cubo-Futurist illustrations to Timon of Athens and three major oil-paintings at the second Post-Impressionist exhibition.

Works of Lewis

This brought him into close contact with the Bloomsbury Group, particularly Roger Fry and Clive Bell, with whom he soon fell out.