My literary encyclopedia says Wyndham Lewis was a "near-fascist." Of course
his colleague Ezra Pound was an actual fascist. And I seem to recall reading
somewhere that their colleague T.S. Elliot had some distasteful notions...
 
On the other hand, wasn't a preoccupation with machinery a characteristic of
much early modernism, including the Soviet avant-garde?
 
 
At 02:56 PM 6/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>in connection with a piece on CRASH, I am surveying various pre-fascist and
>fascist art movements which were preoccupied with machinery. I have cited the
>Italian futurists specifically. Does anyone know of any other movements,
>artists, et cetera
>that might be applicable? Especially, does anyone recall the English
>Vorticists -- Wyndham Lewis, et al, as I remember -- and if this movement had
>fascist leanings?
>
>Collateral question. I recall that there was a prefascist movement of German
>rightwing youth called the FREIKORPS, also have a vague memory that a writer
>named Theiwilligkeit ??? wrote an overview of this organization. Also that
>there have been references to the "armored male body" which came up in a
>piece a while back about THE TERMINATOR and similar films.
>
>Help on these issues greatly appreciated.
>
>HR Greenberg MD  endit
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