Lomax, Francis (2017) ‘I have given myself up to the study of the State’: Wyndham Lewis, Modernism, the Avant-garde, and the State. NPPSH Reflections, 1. pp. 7-15. ISSN 2565-6031

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Abstract

In his introduction to the recent Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis, Tyrus Miller describes the modernist painter, novelist, and critic Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957) as an embodiment of ‘the boundary crossing nature of the avant - garde’ (2016, p. 6). In Miller’s account, the avant - garde of the early twentieth century ‘tore apar t the conventional boundaries between the various arts, between artistic and political activity, and between aesthetic works and conceptual discourse’ (2016 p. 6). The historical avant - garde — by which is meant the various groupings of artists of experimenta l artists and writers which emerged across Europe in the years prior to the First World War — can be broadly characterised by its vehement opposition to bourgeois society, and its conception of the potential of experimental art and literature to act as a cat alyst for radical social change.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	literature; literary analysis; Wyndham Lewis; modernism; avant-garde; art; politics; post-war society; NPPSH;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > Research Institutes > An Foras Feasa
Item ID:	8299
Depositing User:	NPPSH Editor
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2017 08:23
Journal or Publication Title:	NPPSH Reflections
Publisher:	Maynooth Academic Publishing
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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