Enigma Variation: Edward Wadsworth's 'Marine Still-Lifes' and Giorgio de Chirico

From: Visual Culture in Britain | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Vere, Bernard | Copyright information

What shall I love if not the enigma?1

It was Edward Wadsworth's Vorticist colleague Wyndham Lewis who described him as 'a genius of industrial England (deflected, so I think, into nautical channels)'.2 In 1914 Wadsworth was, with Lewis, at the very centre of the vortex. If Vorticism is to be seen as anything more than Lewis' famous claim that it was 'what I, personally, did, and said at a certain period'3 then Wadsworth is the painter whose work needs to be considered. Blast, the journ...

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