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The Art of Being Wrong

By: Owen Hatherley

Wyndham Lewis was perhaps the most talented English painter and novelist of the first half of the twentieth century. How did he become best known as a fascist?

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It would be uncontroversial to state that the rise of the far right over the last decade has not resulted in particularly great art. Since the 1970s, nationalists and authoritarians have tended to prize either neoclassical kitsch or — for the street-fighting wing — fourth-rate punk rock. But a hundred years ago in Europe, there was a […]

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It would be uncontroversial to state that the rise of the far right over the last decade has not resulted in particularly great art. Since the 1970s, nationalists and authoritarians have tended to prize either neoclassical kitsch or — for the street-fighting wing — fourth-rate punk rock. But a hundred years ago in Europe, there was a […]

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It would be uncontroversial to state that the rise of the far right over the last decade has not resulted in particularly great art. Since the 1970s, nationalists and authoritarians have tended to prize either neoclassical kitsch or — for the street-fighting wing — fourth-rate punk rock. But a hundred years ago in Europe, there was a […]

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It would be uncontroversial to state that the rise of the far right over the last decade has not resulted in particularly great art. Since the 1970s, nationalists and authoritarians have tended to prize either neoclassical kitsch or — for the street-fighting wing — fourth-rate punk rock. But a hundred years ago in Europe, there was a […]

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