Description: Further DetailsTitle: TarrCondition: NewEAN: 9780199567201ISBN: 9780199567201Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/09/2010Item Height: 195mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 18mmContributor: Scott W. Klein (Edited by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0199567204Description: 'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral of militaristic self-destruction. When both become interested in the same two women - Bertha Lunken, a conventional German, and Anastasya Vasek, the ultra-modern international devotee of 'swagger sex' - Wyndham Lewis sets the stage for a scathing satire of national and social pretensions, the fraught relationship between men and women, and the incompatibilities of art and life. In his introduction and notes Scott W. Klein explores Lewis's stylistic experimentation within the context of avant-garde movements in painting, and offers new insights into Tarr as a work of mordent wit and enduringly ferocious irony. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Oxford World's ClassicsTopic: Classic Fiction, Arts & PhotographyAuthor: Wyndham LewisItem Weight: 268gRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Tarr
Title: Tarr
EAN: 9780199567201
ISBN: 9780199567201
Release Date: 09/09/2010
Release Year: 2010
Contributor: Scott W. Klein (Edited by)
ISBN-10: 0199567204
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Book Title: Tarr
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: General
Publication Year: 2010
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: Wyndham Lewis
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
