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Heraclitean Fire (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
I made a vaguely dismissive comment about Sinclair Lewis in the comments to the Halldór Laxness post, questioning whether he deserved a Nobel Prize. But not long afterwards, in reference to the Wall Street vs. Main Street theme that has been running in US elections, a journalist mentioned the novel Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. Hang on a minute, I thought, [...]
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Boring Like A Drill (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
It's just about to close, so I finally got around to seeing the " Wyndham Lewis: Portraits " exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. A quick walk through the permanent collection to find the show reminded me why I usually avoid the Gallery: wall after wall of British slebs-du-jour (wow, a photo of Kate Moss!) depicted in portraits alternately fussy and simplistic. The relative sizes...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... of prints by members of the Vorticist group, pre-World War I Cubists led by the painter and writer Wyndham Lewis. Works by Edward Wadsworth are noteworthy. He produced compact, almost purely abstract woodcuts around 1914 and, in 1918, boldly geometric woodcuts depicting ships in dry dock.Much of the exhibition is given over to a group of printmakers associated with the Grosvenor School...
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
William Logan responds to his criticism's critics; and, well, eats a little crow in the bow :) I love Crane unconditionally; he's a bridge to somewhere transporting; however, I can't help but think Wyndham Lewis would have captured his essence much more heart-breakingly than the illustrative portrait (which is fine, such as it is) accompanying this Poetry Foundation feature.
