The lion and the fox: Art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection
Date
2009
Authors
Lewis, Wyndham
Fox, C.J. (Cyril James)
Russell, Danielle
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Publisher
University of Victoria Libraries
Abstract
This exhibition presents the Wyndham Lewis portion of the University of Victoria’s overall C.J. Fox Collection. The title, The Lion and the Fox, is meant to indicate a duality between Lewis as subject and myself as collector. It will be familiar to Lewis readers as the title of his 1927 book about the influence of Machiavelli on Shakespeare.1 That spirited study, which revealed as much about its author as it did about Shakespeare, echoes Machiavelli’s argument that the successful ruler must be a blend of the leonine on the one hand, and the vulpine, on the other. To Lewis’s mind, it was the very lack of essential “foxian” guile that gave Shakespearean giants like Coriolanus, Timon and Othello their tragic magnificence as against the small and crooked “men of the world.”
Description
Includes introduction and essays by C.J. Fox.
"Published to accompany the exhibition The Lion and the Fox: art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection, April 1-May 28, 2009, Mearns Centre for Learning, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46)
The Wyndham Lewis and Modernism symposium was a one day event organized by the University of Victoria Libraries as part of The Lion and the Fox exhibition. The exhibition, which ran from April 1-May 28, 2009 at the Mearns Centre for Learning, celebrated C.J. Fox’s donation of the material he collected about Lewis and other non-conformist writers over a 50 year period.
Keywords
Vorticism-Exhibitions, exhibition catalog, Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957, Wyndham Lewis and Modernism