biography
| name: |
Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham
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pronunciation:
[windam]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1957)
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| biography:
| Artist, writer, and critic, born on a yacht in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, SE Canada. He studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and with Ezra Pound founded Blast (1914–15), the magazine of the Vorticist school. His writings include the satirical novel The Apes of God (1930), and the multi-volume The Human Age (1955–6), as well as literary criticism, such as Men Without Art (1934), and autobiographical books, such as Blasting and Bombardiering (1937). His paintings include works of abstract art, a series of war pictures, and portraits. |
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