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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 Lewiss 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 Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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....