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Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock: A Practicological Modernism

By Thomas Keller

Book information

Publisher
Narr Francke Attempto
Year
2024
ISBN
3381108514, 9783381108510
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
33 MB (34554381 bytes)
Series
Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA)
Pages
328\0
Time added
2024-11-14 21:01:29

Description

This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists from the British art rock tradition, among them Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, art-punk pioneers Wire and electronic pop musician John Foxx. By taking a transdisciplinary and intermedial approach to texts from two fields normally studied in isolation and staking out the elements of a shared modernist ethos, the book presents a new perspective on both fields relevant to scholars of literature, popular culture, and the visual arts alike. While the book rests on sound research from the fields of literary criticism, art history, and pop theory, the structure and writing of the book is fundamentally designed to be accessible and comprehensible to non-scholarly readers.

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