The Wyndham Lewis Society
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Society dedicated to promoting knowledge of the art and literature of the protean modernist satirist, Wyndham Lewis "We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb." BLAST, 1914
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The next meeting of the Wyndham Lewis Reading group takes place on Tuesday 23rd September, 7pm. (Zoom) We'll be focusing on Enemy of the Stars. All welcome.
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I'm delighted to announce the publication of my first book, 'Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right', with @logosverlagberlin.bsky.social.

Details at: www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/buch...
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The Lewis Reading Group meets this evening at 7pm (BST). We'll be discussing Thomas Keller's 'Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock'. Should be a good one!
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Featuring Wyndham Lewis in the role of defence counsel for modern art 👇
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Our next meeting of the Lewis Reading Group takes place online on Tuesday 17 June at 7pm (BST). We'll be focusing on extracts from the Black Sparrow Press edition of 'The Complete Wild Body' (ed. Bernard Lafourcade).

All welcome!
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The next meeting of the Wyndham Lewis Reading Group takes place online this coming Saturday at 11am. We'll be focusing on the Prologue to Apes of God. Join us!

In June and July, the Reading Group online meetings will shift to Tuesday evenings from 6.30pm - 17 June and 15 July.
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In a new blog post on the WL Society website, Professor Paul Edwards explores a pivotal phase in the development of Lewis's draughtsmanship, from 1919 to 1923:
Blog #3 Seated Lady – wyndhamlewissociety.org
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We welcome enquiries from scholars interested in contributing to our blog - simply email [email protected] if you have a Lewisian topic to suggest.
lewisian.bsky.social
In a new blog post on the WL Society website, Professor Paul Edwards explores a pivotal phase in the development of Lewis's draughtsmanship, from 1919 to 1923:
Blog #3 Seated Lady – wyndhamlewissociety.org
wyndhamlewissociety.org
lewisian.bsky.social
This new PhD thesis on Lewis looks fascinating and remarkably timely.
lukegilfedder.bsky.social
Glad to have successfully defended my PhD thesis on Wyndham Lewis, Modernism and the New Right. Looking forward to sharing work from it soon.
#WyndhamLewis #modernism
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Others have noted that Saied Dai's 'individual and yet archetypal' portrait of Theresa May from 2023 seems indebted to Wyndham Lewis's later style. But the GMB were already mining this strange affinity in 2017, with a 'Maybot' protest seemingly inspired by Lewis's cubist Self Portrait of 1911.
Saied Dai's official portrait of Theresa May, from 2023 Cubist-style Maybot heads, at a 2017 GMB Union protest Wyndham Lewis's 1911 Self Portrait, in a cubist style
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The next meeting of the Wyndham Lewis Reading Group is this Saturday, 22nd March, at 11am UK time.

We'll be discussing 'Inferior Religions' (full text available here: gutenberg.ca/ebooks/lewis...).

If you'd like to attend, just email [email protected] and we'll send you the Zoom link.
'Laughter is the wild body's song of triumph', Wyndham Lewis, from 'Inferior Religions'
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Just listened to this while doing the ironing 😎
Highly recommended to anyone interested in a more nuanced approach to Wyndham Lewis's politics and public image.
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Artist-writer Wyndham Lewis lived in a Toronto hotel (The Tudor) at 559 Sherbourne St. for a while in the 1940s. In his 1954 book 'Self-Condemned', the Tudor appears as "Hotel Blundell" ("a jumble of styles") and Toronto as "Momaco." In this except, Lewis describes the "Momaco" winters.
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Thanks to all who came along to our reading group session this morning on Lewis and Aesthetics. Our next session is scheduled for March 22nd. We'll be discussing 'Inferior Religions'.
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Latest blogpost is up on our website. Comments and responses are welcomed. Do get in touch on [email protected] if you'd like to contribute.

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Wyndham Lewis enters the All-Europe Man-Spreading Championships 1913z
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Narrowly defeated by F.T. Marinetti
F.T. Marinetti struggling to sit normally in a chair
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This mesmerising portrait (1936) of an unknown sitter by Wyndham Lewis with its angular and facetted construction, stems from his allegiance to Cubism and his short-lived Vorticism movement.