In addition to "'Detachment' and the Fictionist," this writer called Communism "the great modern religion of the Not-Self" in a long essay that gives its title to a volume of his work, "Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change.
In one essay, this writer ridiculed Edmund Wilson and Max Eastman for the "Marxist faith," which holds that "art without politics is nonsense." In addition to "'Detachment' and the Fictionist," this writer called Communism "the great modern religion of the Not-Self" in a long essay that gives its title to a volume of his work, "Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change." This writer's art criticism is contained in his volume Men Without Art, and he advocated for an authoritarian government of intellectuals in his The Art of Being Ruled. The subject of a 1954 "critical guidebook" by Hugh Kenner, this writer repudiated his erstwhile support for Fascism in the books The Hitler Cult and the satirically titled The Jews, Are They Human? As an author, this man wrote of Percy Hardcaster's gradual loss of belief in Communism after fighting in the Spanish Civil War. In another of his novels, the albino Horace Zagreus takes on Dan Boleyn as a protege; that work takes its title from a derogatory moniker applied to artists. A one-time editor of Blast, for 10 points, identify this British essayist, painter, and author of The Revenge for Love and The Apes of God.
In one essay, this writer ridiculed Edmund Wilson and Max Eastman for the "Marxist faith," which holds that "art without politics is nonsense."
Percy Wyndham Lewis