The Bone beneath the Pulp: drawings by Wyndham Lewis

Apollo, Feb, 2005 by Jacky Klein, Paul Edwards

The Bone beneath the Pulp: Drawings by Wyndham Lewis

This book traces Wyndham-Lewis's drawing from youthful figure studies and the portraits of the 1920s and 1930s (outstanding in the clarity of their line) through to the surreal abstractions and dreamscapes of the 1930s and 1940s.

It is the first book to consider Lewis's drawing as a distinct contribution to his art, reflecting the importance he attributed to draughtsmanship. Lewis wrote that the line in drawing was nothing less than "the bone beneath the pulp". "It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas." The book accompanied the widely praised exhibition of drawings at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, which has just closed.

Published by Paul Holberton publishing for the Courtauld Institute of Art Paperback, 239 x 195 mm 88 pages, 60 images in colour ISBN 1 903470 26 9 Price 12.95 [pounds sterling]