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The Caliph’s Design

The Caliph’s Design

by Wyndham Lewis

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Author
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
Title
The caliph's design : Architects! Where is your vortex?
Original Publication
London: The Egoist Ltd., 1919.
Credits
Paul Fatula, Mary Glenn Krause, Brigham Young University and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
N: Fine Arts
Subject
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 77565
Release Date
December 29, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE CALIPH’S DESIGN
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.Preface
  5. 5.PART I The Caliph’s Design
  6. 6.The Parable of the Caliph’s Design
  7. 7.The Bull Sounds
  8. 8.The Politician’s Apathy
  9. 9.How the Fact of Style Obstructs
  10. 10.Where the Painter would Benefit
  11. 11.The Public Chosen
  12. 12.Architecture
  13. 13.Child Art and the Naif
  14. 14.Machinery and Lions
  15. 15.The Artist’s Luck
  16. 16.PART II The Artist Older than the Fish
  17. 17.The Artist Older than the Fish
  18. 18.The Physiognomy of our Time
  19. 19.Fashion
  20. 20.PART III Paris
  21. 21.French Realism
  22. 22.The Uses of Fashion
  23. 23.Cézanne
  24. 24.The General Tendency in Paris
  25. 25.Matisse and Dérain
  26. 26.Picasso
  27. 27.PART IV The Studio Game
  28. 28.Foreword to Part IV
  29. 29.Our Æsthetes and Plank-Art
  30. 30.The Bawdy Critic
  31. 31.“We Fell in Love with the Beautiful Tiles in the South Kensington Museum Refreshment Room”
  32. 32.The Vengeance of Raphael
  33. 33.General Nature and the Specialised Sense
  34. 34.Untitled

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