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Rotting Hill, by Wyndham Lewis. Nine corrosive stories about mid-century Britain (TIME, April...
Rotting Hill, by Wyndham Lewis. Nine corrosive stories about mid-century Britain (TIME, April...
ROTTING HILL (307 pp.)-Wyndham Lewis-Regnery...
...Wyndham Lewis tried to rouse a whole generation of Englishmen with that manifesto, but Englishmen had every excuse for not paying attention. The manifesto appeared just as they were girding to meet the greater blast of World War I. Thirty-year-old Painter-Poet Lewis was soon in the army himself, and the authorities showed unusual imaginativeness by assigning him, as war artist, to the Canadian artillery at Vimy Ridge...
London's Imperial War Museum today houses many of the products of this period of the artist's life-spiky, devastated landscapes spotted with cubic gun pits, decorated with friezelike rows of artillery shells, and peopled by angular, steel-helmeted robots. The postwar years showed that Wyndham Lewis conceived of peace in much the same terms as war. Nature, to him, was a savage, unruly landscape, to be translated by the artist into what he called the "more tense and angular entity" of rational thought. He exclaimed...