Editing Wyndham Lewis (section)

=== ''Tyros'' and writing (1918–1929) ===
[[File:LewisAsTheTyro.jpg|thumb|260px|''Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro'', self-portrait, 1921]]
After the war, Lewis resumed his career as a painter with a major exhibition, ''Tyros and Portraits'', at the [[Leicester Galleries]] in 1921. "Tyros" were satirical caricatures intended to comment on the culture of the "new epoch" that succeeded the First World War. ''A Reading of [[Ovid]]'' and ''Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro'' are the only surviving oil paintings from this series. Lewis also launched his second magazine, ''The Tyro'', of which there were only two issues. The second (1922) contained an important statement of Lewis's visual aesthetic: "Essay on the Objective of Plastic Art in our Time".<ref>[http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/render.php?view=mjp_object&id=116014593613208 ''Tyro''], scans of the publication at The Modernist Journals Project website.</ref> It was during the early 1920s that he perfected his incisive draughtsmanship.

By the late 1920s, he concentrated on writing. He launched yet another magazine, ''The Enemy'' (1927–1929), largely written by himself and declaring its belligerent critical stance in its title. The magazine and other theoretical and critical works he published from 1926 to 1929 mark a deliberate separation from the avant-garde and his previous associates. He believed that their work failed to show sufficient critical awareness of those ideologies that worked against truly revolutionary change in the West, and therefore became a vehicle for these pernicious ideologies.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} His major theoretical and cultural statement from this period is ''The Art of Being Ruled'' (1926).

''Time and Western Man'' (1927) is a cultural and philosophical discussion that includes penetrating critiques of [[James Joyce]], [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Ezra Pound]] that are still read. Lewis also attacked the [[process philosophy]] of Bergson, [[Samuel Alexander]], [[Alfred North Whitehead]], and others. By 1931 he was advocating the art of ancient Egypt as impossible to surpass.<ref>[https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8357 ''Time and Western Man''], Morató, Yolanda. "Time and Western Man". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 2 March 2005; cf. [[Edward Chaney]], '"Mummy First: Statue After": Wyndham Lewis, Diffusionism, Mosaic Distinctions and the Egyptian Origins of Art,' ''Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination'', eds. E. Dobson and N. Tonks (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).</ref>