Abstraction and illustration: "The enemy of the stars" by Wyndham Lewis

The article analyzes relations between a painterly abstraction and a work of literature on the material of the play «The Enemy of the Stars» and its eponymous illustration. An interpretation of the illustration in the context of the play's poetic system and of the artists views considering abstraction expressed in «BLAST» is proposed. The role of abstraction and abstract illustration in the early work of Wyndham Lewis and in «The Enemy of the Stars» is defined.