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[Percy Wyndham Lewis]'s art has a reputation for mechanical hardness, but one is disarmed by the imaginative power, wealth of information and association, technical delicacy. Reminded too of the debt of younger artists, from Paul Nash, Sutherland and Bacon (Lewis wrote the first review) to that fiercely vorticist spirit Michael Sandle, who has splendidly and publicly blasted the current much-hyped 'art' flux as 'a blizzard of shite'.
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Blast From the Past
Percy Wyndham Lewis 1882-1957
Design Centre, Rugby School, until 8 DecemberIn the 1915 Vorticist Manifesto, published in the movement's magazine Blast, Wyndham Lewis (he dropped Percy) wrote:3. Luxury, sport, the famo...See the full content of this document
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