Counter-Currents
Remembering Wyndham Lewis:
November 18, 1882 to March 7, 1957
Greg Johnson
166 words
Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:
- Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis” (French translation here)
- Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right”
- Jonathan Bowden, “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” (transcript)
- Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis” (podcast)
- Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr: An Exercise in Right-Wing Psychology” (Bulgarian translation here)
- Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis’ The Apes of God” (Bulgarian translation here)
- Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis’ Childermass: Black Metal, without the Music”
- Adrian Davies, “Culture and ‘Engagement’: French and English Perspectives”
- Alex Kurtagić, “Some Sort of Nietzschean”
Kerry Bolton’s essay and Bowden’s “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” are both excellent overviews of Wyndham Lewis’s life and work.
To learn more about Wyndham Lewis, visit the website of the Wyndham Lewis Society. Click here to see some of his paintings.
3 comments
haaaa haaa how many “White Nationalists” would, seeing these paintings, instantly blare out their inevitable DEGENERATE DEGENERATE ! and, burn it… and destroy it… and kill ´em all…because it harms our children, and our society! Because… you know… a painting has to be… like a photo… It´s not easy to be a White Nationalist in the company of such “White Nationalists”.
I’m reminded of Greg’s common remark that “the best people and the worst people I have met have been white nationalists”.
I really appreciate all of these remembrances of artists on the right. It’s exposed me to a lot of new expression that I was not aware of. Thanks for these.
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