Wyndham Lewis

[Benny Bunter]

Lol he wrote a book praising Hitler in 1931!

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Lol he wrote a book praising Hitler in 1931!

He liked his early stuff.

 

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Luke and woops down the Thames.

 

[Benny Bunter]

He liked his early stuff.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Desperate attempt to uncancel himself

 

[Benny Bunter]

 

[william_kent]

amazing typography though

what a blast

 

[Benny Bunter]

amazing typography though

what a blast

Blast is one of those things where the typography transcends the actual quality and content of the writing, it looks so cool on the page

 

[Corpsey]

Haven't yet read a single word of this but I noticed it in the paper today and remembered there was a thread about him here so here you go maybe it's good maybe it's shitcakes

Seamus Perry · My God, they stink! Wyndham Lewis goes for it

Style in Lewis’s prose is a sort of triumph of the will over the external world of people and things, ‘that fat mass...

www.lrb.co.uk

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Haven't yet read a single word of this but I noticed it in the paper today and remembered there was a thread about him here so here you go maybe it's good maybe it's shitcakes

Seamus Perry · My God, they stink! Wyndham Lewis goes for it

Style in Lewis’s prose is a sort of triumph of the will over the external world of people and things, ‘that fat mass...

www.lrb.co.uk

Nice one.

 

[Corpsey]

Seamus Perry · My God, they stink! Wyndham Lewis goes for it

Style in Lewis’s prose is a sort of triumph of the will over the external world of people and things, ‘that fat mass...

www.lrb.co.uk

https://archive.ph/4d43K

can't believe you went back and edited this post just to make me look stupid

cunt

 

[sus]

Bergson ended Creative Evolution (1907) by encouraging the philosopher of the future to see ‘the material world melt back into a simple flux, a continuity of flowing, a becoming’. Lewis was not remotely attracted by the idea of melting into anything – ‘we should retain our objective hardness, and not be constantly melting and hotly overflowing’ – so he had a double complaint to make: not only does Bergsonian thought strip you of ‘the clearness of outline, the static beauty, of the things you commonly apprehend’ but it also takes away ‘the clearness of outline of your own individuality which apprehends them’. Bergson often writes with heady rapture about things interpenetrating and merging, and Time and Western Man is largely a statement of Lewis’s opposite preference, ‘them standing apart – the wind blowing between them, and the air circulating freely in and out of them

"Resistance, or surrender?"

 

[DLaurent]

I pretty much only know that painting, The Dancers. I love that one though, full of sexual kinetic energy, like the artwork to Marvin Gaye - I Want You.