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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 .. more

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Percy Wyndham Lewis was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · 19d
Thanks to everybody who came along to the Lewis reading group session earlier this week, where we discussed the work of the women Vorticists.

Next up, Lewis and human nature, on 18 November. Join us!

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Sep 11
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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Dr Luke Gilfedder @lukegilfedder.bsky.social · Aug 28
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 Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Jul 15
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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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Jun 9
Featuring Wyndham Lewis in the role of defence counsel for modern art 👇

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Jamie @drjwood.com · Jun 7
Wyndham Lewis's 'Laughing Women' #WyndhamLewis #Vorticism www.drjwood.com/p/wyndham-le...
Wyndham Lewis's 'Laughing Women'
Unpicking the history of Lewis's earliest Vorticist paintings
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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Jun 3
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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Dr Luke Gilfedder @lukegilfedder.bsky.social · Jun 3
Part Two of my article on Wyndham Lewis and Anglo-Futurism is out now on The Miskatonian—check it out below:
www.miskatonian.com/2025/04/09/v...
#WyndhamLewis #modernism #futurism
Vorticism: The original Anglo-Futurism? Part II
Explore Vorticism: The original Anglo-Futurism? Part II discusses the rejection of Impressionism and its impact on art.
www.miskatonian.com

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · May 23
OTD in early British television

Television’s main offering on Tuesday 23 May 1939 was a 45-minute studio debate titled simply Modern Art. As the billing detailed, ‘Sir William Rothensten took the chair...

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OTD in early British television: 23 May 1939 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Television’s main offering on Tuesday 23 May 1939 was a 45-minute studio debate titled simply Modern Art. As the billing detailed, ‘Sir William Rothensten took the chair. Mr Wyndham...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · May 13
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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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · May 6
We welcome enquiries from scholars interested in contributing to our blog - simply email wyndhamlewissociety@gmail.com if you have a Lewisian topic to suggest.

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · May 6
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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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Apr 19
This new PhD thesis on Lewis looks fascinating and remarkably timely.
lukegilfedder.bsky.social Dr Luke Gilfedder @lukegilfedder.bsky.social · Apr 19
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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Dr Luke Gilfedder @lukegilfedder.bsky.social · Apr 19
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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Dr Luke Gilfedder @lukegilfedder.bsky.social · Apr 19
My new article on Wyndham Lewis and Futurism is now live on The Miskatonian—check out Part 1 below:
www.miskatonian.com/2025/02/21/v...
#WyndhamLewis #modernism #futurism
Vorticism: The original Anglo-Futurism? Part I
Vorticism vs. Futurism: Discover Wyndham Lewis's thoughts in Vorticism: The original Anglo-Futurism? Part I, a captivating art exploration.
www.miskatonian.com

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Apr 13
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 Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Mar 20
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 wyndhamlewissociety@gmail.com 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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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Mar 11
Marshall McLuhan on Wyndham Lewis

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Feb 22
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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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · Feb 17
Wyndham Lewis, Edith Sitwell, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114194
Presented by Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens 1943

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Hogtown 101 @hogtown101.bsky.social · Feb 14
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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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Feb 13
Latest blogpost is up on our website. Comments and responses are welcomed. Do get in touch on wyndhamlewissociety@gmail.com if you'd like to contribute.

wyndhamlewissociety.org/2025/02/12/b...
Blog #2 – wyndhamlewissociety.org
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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Feb 1
Narrowly defeated by F.T. Marinetti
F.T. Marinetti struggling to sit normally in a chair

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · Jan 31
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.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · Jan 30
Wyndham Lewis enters the All-Europe Man-Spreading Championships 1913z

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Jan 28
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Conference tickets include access to all sessions, workshops, keynotes, receptions, the professional programme, the bookfair & networking opportunities.

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Jan 27
wyndhamlewissociety.org/2025/01/23/t...

Our new website is still a work-in-progress, but we are making progress. Here's the inaugural blog post to kick things off.
The re-vamped Lewis website: inaugural blog – wyndhamlewissociety.org
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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · Jan 27
Great to discuss Lewis's Futurist Figure (1912) at this month's meeting of the Lewis Reading Group.

February's session takes place on the 22nd and we'll be focusing on Lewis and aesthetics.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · Jan 25
Wyndham Lewis, (Amherst, Canada, 18 November 1882 – London, 7 March 1957) was a British painter and writer, founder of the Vorticist movement.
Portrait of T. S. Eliot - 1938
Oil painting on canvas
Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
#Art