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   Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English Painter and author. He was a co-founder of Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticist, Blast. His novels include his pre-World War 1-era novel Tarr, and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising of The Childermass, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trail of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career up-to-date.

Personal Details Name Percy Wyndham Lewis Place of birth Amherst Nova Scotia Canada Date of Birth November 18, 1882 Date of Death March 7, 1957 (aged 74) Nationality English Field Painting, Poetry, Literature, Criticism Training Slade School of Art Movement Vorticism Museum National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery website http://www.unirioja.es/wyndhamlewis/

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    Mainly residing in England from 1908, Lewis published his first work in Ford Maddox Ford's TheEnglish Review in 1909. He was an unlikely founder-member of the Camden Town Group in 1911. In 1912 he exhibited his Cubo-Futurist illustrations to Timon of Athens and three major oil-paintings at the second Post-Impressionist exhibition.

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