{"id":839,"date":"2016-09-15T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=839"},"modified":"2016-12-06T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:25:00","slug":"image-12","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?portfolio=image-12","title":{"rendered":"Lewis &#8212; The Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-916 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-916 avia_image' src='https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wyndham-Lewis-The-Island-2.jpg' alt='' title='wyndham-lewis-the-island' height=\"208\" width=\"273\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957),\u00a0<em>The Island\u00a0<\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:18px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In <em>The Island,<\/em> Wyndham Lewis depicts a deconstructed world that is in conflict with modernity \u2013 not because of modernization in itself, but because of the constant struggle to find what he called the \u201cinstinctive,\u201d \u201cgenuine\u201d way of expressing it. For Lewis, this means of expression was through vorticism, an artistic movement headed by Lewis and Ezra Pound whose aim was to depict the all-consuming nature of a rapidly moving and changing world from a still point, or vortex. Well known for his aversion to conformity, Lewis here expresses this unique style \u2013 one that is free of \u201cconventional limitations,\u201d that contains \u201csurprise and primitive detachment,\u201d and that could be attempting to re-humanize the modern world in a new, unexplored way.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ZVISZgoPbg' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ZVISZgoPbg?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The composer Pierre Boulez creates music in a similar fashion; he favors violent, explosive music that almost attacks listeners without their consent in the same way that Lewis\u2019s artwork forcibly draws viewers without theirs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>\u201c&#8230;just as the old form of egotism is no longer fit for such conditions as now prevail, so the isolated human figure of most ancient Art is an anachronism.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> THE ACTUAL HUMAN BODY BECOMES OF LESS IMPORTANCE EVERY DAY.<br \/>\nIt now, literally, EXISTS much less.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Love, hatred, etc., imply conventional limitations.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> All clean, clear cut emotions depend on the element of strangeness, and surprise and primitive detachment.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Dehumanization is the chief diagnostic of the Modern World.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;The New Egos&#8221; by Wyndham Lewis, <em>BLAST<\/em> Magazine (1914)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_full  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y0niXuJUdDY' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0niXuJUdDY?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Here, Lewis discusses whether or not his art is &#8220;unorthodox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_textblock  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Case Study<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Robert Kleeman was born in Chelsea, London, England in 1894. He was born into a wealthy family and lived a comfortable life with his parents Charles and Margaret and his younger brother Joseph. At the age of eighteen, he began attending King\u2019s College London, where he studied philosophy and literature in the hopes of one day becoming a lawyer. His studies were interrupted, however, by the outbreak of World War I. Robert, then twenty, enlisted, along with then-eighteen year old Joseph. But then disaster struck \u2013 Joseph was killed in battle, and so Robert returned home alone and heartbroken. The death of his brother affected him greatly, and he refused to go back to King\u2019s College and abandoned his dreams of pursuing a career in law. He instead turned to writing as a method of organizing his thoughts and picking up the pieces of his life left over after the end of the war. He moved away from Chelsea and lived in Manchester for a few years, but then decided that he needed to leave England altogether and moved to Paris to focus on his literary career. Now twenty-seven, Robert has dedicated his life to writing about his experiences and the affects of war on daily life in France and England. He struggles with occasional flashbacks of the trauma he endured, and evidence of this appears in his written works. However, despite Joseph\u2019s death, Robert reluctantly maintains that the war was fought in England\u2019s best interest and that the country did not have a choice in terms of participating. He is a firm proponent of English nationalism, and travels to England frequently to give lectures at universities about his experiences on the battlefield, as well as about his brave brother\u2019s sacrifice. Robert recently married an Englishwoman named Barbara and moved with her to Nice, France. Together they have a one-year-old daughter named Maisie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1682\">Adult Perspective<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1197\">Colonialism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1200\">Cubism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1213\">Futurism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1219\">Male Perspective<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1224\">Nature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1230\">Surrealism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1233\">The Body<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1242\">Urbanism and Industrialization<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1245\">War<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[63,59,60,70,64,73,57,68,71,58,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/839\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_entries&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}