Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings [first edition]

29cm. 455p. Dustjacket in mylar. Some tearing of the dustjacket near the lower edge of the book's spine and along the edge of the front board. Beige cloth binding in good condition. Gold impressing on the spine. Black endpapers. Includes 781 illustrations 16 in colour. Frontispiece and colour illustrations pasted into pages. Black and white images printed on glossy paper in 169 plates. Very good condition. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was an English painter, illustrator, typographer, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Vorticist Movement, a re-revisioning of European Futurism that privileged the art and literature of an Anglo-Saxon ancestry. He edited and designed the famous Vorticist periodical BLAST (1914-1915), published by the Bodley Head and surviving for only two issues. An important figure of British Modernism, Lewis' painting demonstrates the influence of Cubism, Futurism, Giorgio de Chirico's scuola metafisica movement, and Surrealism.