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Art and Criticism in the Machine Age: The Tyro 机器时代的艺术与批评:Tyro

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage Pub Date : 2020-05-31 DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621662.003.0003

Nathan O’Donnell

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‘I am planning a small review’: The Enemy and the General Strike “我在计划一个小评论”:《敌人和总罢工》

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage Pub Date : 2020-05-31 DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621662.003.0004

Nathan O’Donnell

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‘Public Money is Private Money’: Paying for the Arts in the 1930s “公共资金是私人资金”:20世纪30年代的艺术支出

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage Pub Date : 2020-05-31 DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621662.003.0005

Nathan O’Donnell

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Afterword 后记

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage Pub Date : 2013-06-27 DOI: 10.1017/9781139565981.020

Sian Lazar

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