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The Enemy 1
A Review of Art and Literature (Jan 1927) |
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Edited and illustrated by Wyndham Lewis
Contemporary Editor David Peters Corbett |
| ''Outside I am freer'' |
| Wyndham Lewis |
Believing the artist should be an explosive force, Wyndham Lewis sent shock waves through England's literary establishment in 1914-1915 by publishing his revolutionary BLAST. But Lewis returned from World War 1 to a different literary scene, his former colleagues either dispersed or killed. His own iconoclastic energies remained unflagging and nine years after the War singlehandedly published 'The Enemy', three issues of a tabloid-format rebel magazine.
In Volume 1 Wyndham Lewis attacks his best friend Ezra Pound, for being ''a revolutionary simpleton'', takes fellow Modernists James Joyce and Gertrude Stein to task for being ''time-obsessed'' and being unconsciously driven by romantic tendencies. This critique eventiually turned into one of Lewis's most phenomenal philosophical writings, Time and Western Man. |
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| ''A man of understanding is to benefit by his enemies... He that knoweth he has an enemy will look circumspectly about him to all matters, ordering his life and behavior in better sort.'' |
| from Plutarch's 'Moralia' |
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218 pages, 7 1/4'' x 10'' (280 x 185 mm)
9 b/w illustrations, English |
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| Paperback |
ISBN: 0-87685-947-3 |
$ 15.00 |
| Cloth Trade |
ISBN: 0-87685-948-1 |
$ 25.00 |
| Deluxe Cloth |
ISBN: 0-87685-949-X |
$ 35.00 |
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| About the Editor: |
| David Peters Corbett was born in England 1956 and studied English and History of Art at the universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, and Manchester. His articles have appears in 'Art Bulletin', 'Prose Studies', 'Word & Image' and 'Yeats Annual', and his book 'Confronting Modernity: English Art and Culture, 1914-1930,' (Manchester University Press, 1995) deals extensively with Wyndham Lewis. He is Henry Moore Lecturer in History of Art at the University of York. |
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