From 23 June 2017 until 1 January 2018, IWM North will present Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War, the largest UK retrospective of the artists work to date. Marking one hundred years since Lewis (18 November 1882 - 7 March 1957) was first commissioned as an official war artist in 1917, the exhibition will comprise of more than 160 artworks, books, journals and pamphlets from major public and private, national and international collections. Staged in Imperial War Museums centenary year, Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War will be IWMs largest visual arts exhibition to date. A radical force in British art and literature, Lewis was the founder of Britains only true avant-garde movement, Vorticism. Lewis life and art encompassed the most violent and chaotic period in human history; from the First World War to the nuclear age. He was a controversial figure whose ideas, opinions and personality
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