The Art of Wyndham Lewis (1951)

This is the first monograph on Wyndham Lewis; a surprising fact when his fertility and significance, as writer as well as painter, are considered. As Mr. Newton says in his long and valuable introduction to this book, Wyndham Lewis invented one of the two art-movements originating in this country: Vorticism (Pre-Raphaelitism being the other). In the present phase of British art he may not be accorded his full due, but when the importance and influence, away from naturalism and Impressionism, of the early years of the century is realized, he may well be seen to be the most important figure, perhaps the most popular figure, in British art during the last fifty years.

Mr. Handley-Read has done his work skillfully, with more than domestic professional interest in and admiration for the artist. The book has been prepared with the full co-operation and approval of Mr. Lewis himself and many of the pictures illustrating it are reproduced here for the first time.

Condition: very good in good dust-wrapper