Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock A Practicological Modernism

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.

About the author

Dr. Thomas Keller lehrt englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Zürich.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Keller
• Publisher: Narr
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.01.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9783381108510
• ISBN: 978-3-381-10851-0
• Pages: 328
• Dimensions (packing): 13.7 x 1.5 x 20.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 424 g
• Series: Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) > 150; Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten > 150
• Subjects: Kunstgeschichte, Englisch, Anglistik, Grossbritannien, Modernismus, britisch, Britannien, Brite, Rock (Musik), Anglistik / Literaturwissenschaft, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Populärmusik, Populäre Kulturen