The Wyndham Lewis Society

Paperback copy of the Jupiter edition of The Childermass by Wyndham Lewis

Happy Childermass Day to all who celebrate

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Our final meeting of the Lewis Reading Group for 2025 takes place this evening at 7pm (GMT). We'll be discussing Ian Duncan's critical text 'Towards a Modernist Poetic. Wyndham Lewis's Early Fiction' (1982).

Latest blogpost:

wyndhamlewissociety.org/2025/11/19/r...

Thanks to everybody who came along to our Reading Group session on Lewis and human nature last night. A fantastic discussion. Many thanks go to Alexander Scott for the provocation paper.

Next session is on December 9th. Join us.

Our monthly Reading Group convenes this evening. We'll be discussing 'The Hatter's Automaton' as we think about Lewis and human nature.

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!

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.

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...

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!

Featuring Wyndham Lewis in the role of defence counsel for modern art 👇

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.

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

Wyndham Lewis's 'Laughing Women' Unpicking the history of Lewis's earliest Vorticist paintings

Wyndham Lewis's 'Laughing Women' #WyndhamLewis #Vorticism www.drjwood.com/p/wyndham-le...

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!

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.

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:

We welcome enquiries from scholars interested in contributing to our blog - simply email wyndhamlewissociety@gmail.com if you have a Lewisian topic to suggest.

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:

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.

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

This new PhD thesis on Lewis looks fascinating and remarkably timely.

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

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.

'Laughter is the wild body's song of triumph', Wyndham Lewis, from 'Inferior Religions'

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.

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.

Marshall McLuhan on Wyndham Lewis

Presented by Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens 1943

Wyndham Lewis, Edith Sitwell, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114194

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.

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'.

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...

Wyndham Lewis enters the All-Europe Man-Spreading Championships 1913z