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Catalogue >Fine Art >  Monographs >  Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation Includes the complete drawings and paintings (1907-1949) Jonathan Black Edward Wadsworth was a major figure in British art of the first half of the twentieth century. This highly illustrated monograph assesses one of Britain's most talented and experimental painters and printmakers of the period and places his work within a British and European context. A complete, illustrated catalogue of the artist's paintings and drawings is included. "an informed and entertaining monograph" The Chap 275 x 235 mm; 224 pages, 120 colour, 400 mono illustrations, hardback ISBN 0 85667 603 9 | Retail price £35.00  [View provisional pages in PDF format - 3MB download] Online price: £25.00 / €37.50 He was an active participant in a number of key events: in 1913-14 he helped found the London Group as a forum for exhibiting stylistically challenging art; in 1914, alongside Wyndam Lewis, he was a leading member of the Vorticists; in the 1920s he was influential in the 'rappel á l'ordre' and 'neue sacklichkeit' movements, and in the 1930s he was a founder member of two radical pro-abstraction movements, Unit One and the Paris-based Abstraction-Création. Above all, Wadsworth's work radiates his lifelong commitment to 'form, feeling and calculation'. Working during a period of rapid technical advancement, he perceived machinery and man to be balanced by a romanticism and lyricism, a sadness and melancholy, culminating in a triumphant mix of the man-made and the natural. Indeed, as Wyndham Lewis predicted, 'the passage of time [would make] his best work more, not less, respected'. The Author Dr Jonathan Black is an art historian specialising in 20th century British art. He is the author of numerous essays on British art including those in C.R. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century (1999) and Blasting the Future: Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920 (2004).