Wyndham Lewis’s Universalism : The ‘Vortex’ and the ‘Village’

Kaname, Mariko

doi:https://doi.org/10.18910/91147

Wyndham Lewis’s Universalism : The ‘Vortex’ and the ‘Village’

Kaname, Mariko

The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory, 2022, 4, 120-127

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タイトル	Wyndham Lewis’s Universalism : The ‘Vortex’ and the ‘Village’
著者	NRID 1000040420426 1000040420426 著者名 Kaname, Mariko
キーワード等	Wyndham Lewis
	Vorticism
	Universalism
	Abstraction
	Modernism
内容	Session VI : Public Image
抄録	Canadian-born British artist Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) was a co-founder of Vorticism (1914–1915), the only avant-garde art movement in England at the beginning of the 20th century, whose geometric designs and innovative conceptions shared major modernist tendencies typical of modernist projects. Modern England did not have avant-garde art movements that extended to large-scale urban planning and modern architecture, such as Cubism, Futurism, and De Stijl, as in other European countries; therefore, Lewis’s tendencies at this time may be regarded as ‘continental’. Interestingly, however, according to art historian Paul Edwards, Lewis’s The Caliph’s Design (1919) shows ‘the aborted beginning of international Modernism in London’ (Edwards 1986: 150). Indeed, the polarisation of his career evokes an orientation towards cultural community, as if it were a ‘universalism’, while revealing his innermost picture of the conflict between England and continental Europe. With this background of Wyndham Lewis in mind, we will focus on three points in this paper. First, using the design of the Vorticist journal Blast, we will examine the concept of a ‘vortex’. In Blast, Lewis and the Vorticists attempted to examine the human consciousness emerging in the new city through innovative design, and critique the environment in contemporary society. Second, we will analyse how this abstract concept is developed through The Caliph’s Design. Third, we will consider Lewis’s idea of cultural community, considering that the ‘village’ has received significant attention in Wyndham Lewis’s political pamphlet, Anglosaxony. This concept subsequently influenced leading communication theorist Marshall McLuhan’s (1911–1980) idea of the ‘global village’.
出版者	The ACDHT 2021 OSAKA Executive Committee
収録物名	The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory
巻(号)	4
ページ	120-127
刊行年月	2022-03
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/91147
DOI	https://doi.org/10.18910/91147
eISSN	21897166
アクセス権	open access
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	本学関連学会 Related Societies
カテゴリ	The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory / No.4

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	Abstraction
	Modernism
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