120 pages, paperback, 260 x 215 mm, 70 colour illustrations
PRICE: £20.00
ISBN: 978 1 903470 29 9
This is the first book to consider Lewis’s drawing as a distinct contribution to his art, despite the importance he attributed to draughtsmanship. Lewis wrote that the line in drawing was nothing less than “the bone beneath the pulp”. “It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper ... to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas.” This book traces his drawing from youthful figure studies and portraits to the surreal abstractions and dreamscapes of his later years.
Accompanying an enthusiastically reviewed exhibition (2004), this is a fascinating contribution to this often misunderstood or badly ‘labelled’ artist.
Paul Edwards is the author of Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, 2000. Jacky Klein is a curator at the Hayward Gallery, London.
This book is first published to accompany the major exhibition at Compton Verney, ‘The Artist’s Studio’, staged at this great Adam-designed country house in Warwickshire. This rarely studied subject is covered in expert essays based upon new research from the late sixteenth century to the present day, focusing upon artists from Rembrandt and Courbet, via Rossetti and Cézanne to Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. More