An early effect of Wyndham Lewis' pituitary tumour on his art: an inquiry prompted by a note in The World Through Blunted Sight.
An avenue of research suggested by Patrick Trevor-Roper's 'inquiry into the influence of defective vision on art and character' provides a possible solution to an art-historical problem. It is proposed that questions raised by Percy Wyndham Lewis' red portraits of 1937 can be answered in terms of his intracranial tumour.
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