Don’t miss the largest UK exhibition of work by Wyndham Lewis, Britain’s original rebel artist. Lewis was one of the founders of Vorticism, a modernist movement inspired by Cubism which preferred geometric abstraction over landscapes and nudes. The movement was launched in the irreverent art magazine BLAST, for which Lewis was the editor. Despite his rebellious background, he became an official war artist in 1917 and produced work from his time at Ypres. He later became a writer: his fiction and non-fiction works caused controversy, and he had a notably stormy relationship with the Bloomsbury Set. The Imperial War Museum North exhibition comprises more than 160 of his artworks, books, journals and pamphlets from major collections, and is IWM’s biggest arts exhibition to date.
Until Mon 1 Jan 2018, Imperial War Museum North, The Quays, Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester M17 1TZ. Tel: 0161 836 4000, 10am – 5pm (last admission time is 3.45pm), £8, www.iwm.org.uk
Image: The Crowd, Wyndham Lewis © Tate, London 2017
- Words:
- Fat Roland
- Published on:
- Tue 26 Dec 2017
