Abstract
Our own cultural space and time inevitably condition the perspectives in which we view past civilisations, a fact that brings us to unconsciously make ‘cultural mistakes’. These mistakes sometimes reveal more about us than about the object of scholarship. Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) has been judged on his right-wing ideology, on his 1931 book Hitler, on his aesthetically violent language. In this essay I focus on the concepts of reaction, reflection, and perception, and on the significance of the terms ‘bête noire’ and ‘scapegoat’ through the figure of the polemical English essayist, writer, and painter. Following new scholarly trends of reassessment, Lewis's role is examined from a historical and cultural perspective. For this purpose, the most polemical aspects of his work are analysed in different sections whose headings play with the titles of some of his crucial books and exhibitions.
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