Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of the multifaceted artist. This is the first exhibition on Wyndham Lewis (Amherst, Nova Scotia, 1882 - London, 1957) presented in Spain and the most comprehensive show since the retrospective exhibition organized by the Tate Gallery in 1956, one year before his death. Over 150 artworks and 60 publications by himself offer a complete survey of the artistic and literary output of this multifaceted and controversial artist who was one of the key figures within international modernism of the first half of the 20th century.

As little known as that future from which he still approaches us,the painter and writer Wyndham Lewis was nothing less than a "One-Man Avant-.garde": he wrote more than 40 books,founded Vorticism ("this strange synthesis'of cultures and times,"as he said), penned manifestos, essays and novels, edited vibrant magazines like Biast and The Enemy, and proauced paintings and drawings fall of energetic variety, from impressive cubo-futurist compositions to iconic portraits.

Wyndham Lewis (18S2-195D is a comprehensive introducuon of"the most fascinating personality of our time --as T. 3. Eliot wrote in 1920-to a wide. audience. It contains more than 250 colour plates, photos and documents, an essential anthology of Lewis's writing, and essays on his work by Paul Edwards,Richard Humphreys,Alan Munton, Andrzej Gasiorek, Yolanda Morat6, and Juan Bonilla.