Discover the artworks and
story of Britain’s original rebel artist in the largest UK retrospective of
Wyndham Lewis’ work to date.
Marking the 60th
anniversary of his death and the centenary of his commission as an official war
artist in 1917, Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War will comprise of more than 160
artworks, books, journals and pamphlets from major public and private, national
and international collections.
A radical force in
twentieth century British art and literature, Lewis was a brilliant
draughtsman, innovative writer and satirist, and leader of Britain’s one and
only avant-garde art movement, Vorticism. Spanning from the First World War to
the nuclear age, Lewis’ career encompassed the most violent and chaotic period
in human history. He was a controversial figure whose ideas, opinions and
personality inspired, enticed and repelled in equal measure
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