Wyndham Lewis
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Percy Wyndham Lewis was a Canadian-born British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.
Lewis in 1913
Wyndham Lewis, 1912, The Dancers
Wyndham Lewis, c.1914–15, Workshop (Tate, London)
Wyndham Lewis, photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1917
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His work
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…and cabaret on Heddon Street. From 1913 to 1915 Lewis developed the style of geometric abstraction for which he is best known today, which his friend Ezra Pound dubbed "Vorticism". Lewis sought to combine the strong structure of Cubism, which he found was not "alive", with the liveliness of Futurist art, which…
Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s
In his Cheltenham Military Academy uniform with his mother, 1898
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), c. 1921