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Vorticism
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Vorticism, an aggressive literary and artistic movement that flourished 1912–15; it attacked the sentimentality of 19th-cent. art and celebrated violence, energy, and the machine. The Vorticists, dominated by W.
Lewis, included
Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, the painters C. R. Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth; they were associated with T. E.
Hulme, F. M.
Ford, and the sculptor Jacob Epstein. In the visual arts this revolutionary fervour was expressed in abstract compositions of bold lines, sharp angles, and planes.
Blast: the Review of the Great English Vortex (1914), edited by Lewis, was an ambitious attempt to establish in England a magazine dedicated to the modern movement and to draw together artists and writers of the avant-garde. Its long lists of the blasted and blessed, its mixture of flippancy and rhetoric, and its provocative title and typography were designed to jolt the English out of their complacent insularity.
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From Vortex to Vorticism: Ezra Pound's art and science.
Magazine article from: Intertexts; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...himself had derived from the Vortex: Vorticism referring to the movement, and Vorticists...for the last time in this radio show, Vorticism had been omitted from a list of avant...only a month after the declaration of Vorticism; as a result, the London avant-garde...
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Arts Etc: Blast! It's the real thing Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot - what a great art movement they made, says Tom Rosenthal. So why is Vorticism so neglected?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in mounting the first exhibition on Vorticism in these islands for many years. If...French then certainly Paris-centred, Vorticism - the art movement which burnt short...Vorticists had welcomed joyously to London (Vorticism was, to a considerable extent, an offshoot...
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London Illustrated: Blasting the future: Vorticism in Britain
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/1/2004; 428 words
; Vorticism was one of the most important and distinctive...American poet Ezra Pound who coined the name Vorticism. Their manifesto expounded the ideas...influential one. Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920, Estorick Collection...
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Where's the anger?
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/21/2004; ; 700+ words
; Exhibitions Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-20 Estorick Collection...is angry. Blast was the mouthpiece of Vorticism (often referred to as the only 20th...is not really an in-depth study of Vorticism, but rather an intimate comparative...
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PROFILE - WYNDHAM LEWIS: EYE OF THE STORM.
Magazine article from: Design Week; 2/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the Omega Workshops. Lewis conceived Vorticism as a British rival to Cubism, Expressionism...in what amounted to a description of Vorticism - that art should be 'angular...masks, show the style of his work before Vorticism. Lewis also depicted Timon as a puppet...
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Enigma Variation: Edward Wadsworth's 'Marine Still-Lifes' and Giorgio de Chirico
Magazine article from: Visual Culture in Britain; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...at the very centre of the vortex. If Vorticism is to be seen as anything more than Lewis...industry conjured up as the inspiration for Vorticism, these 'marine still-lifes' are...buildings. Rather than a link back to Vorticism, there is an often-remarked-upon...
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This is the modern world; British prints zip through the early 20th century
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/3/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Modernist abstraction, which Ezra Pound dubbed Vorticism. Like Cubism, Vorticism was geometric, with faceted forms. Like Futurism...and the glorification of a mechanized world. Vorticism, though, highlighted the still point around...
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Poet painter ; Had Wyndham Lewis left writing alone and concentrated on his art, he could have become one of the most influential artists this country has ever produced
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 8/29/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...then 29), the Vorticist and editor of Vorticism's manifesto, Blast we solved the problem...field to justify as an introduction to Vorticism, the rebellious movement that only a...Pound, the poet who had coined the term Vorticism, "is the point of maximum energy...
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"Chaos Invading Concept": Blast as a Native Theory of Promotional Culture.
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...emerge the English avant-garde movement vorticism. Lewis, Pound, and the other artists...The aggression that would characterize vorticism was evident in this first ad, for it...position is a limiting one. Given that vorticism was so aggressively nationalistic, it...
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Small gems glisten
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/18/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...century of British art-making, from Vorticism, England's first abstract art movement...short-lived art and literary alliance, Vorticism drew much of its inspiration from cubist...movements of the early 20th century, Vorticism had its own magazine, Blast, which...
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Vorticism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Vorticism. An avant-garde British art movement...expression of the dynamism of modern life). Vorticism was highly aggressive in tone, celebrating...development of British modernism. Although Vorticism was not officially launched until 1914...
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vorticism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
vorticism , short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism . Its...and T. S. Eliot wrote about it. Bibliography: See W. C. Wees, Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde, 1910-1915 (1972).
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Lewis, Wyndham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...associated with the artistic movement known as Vorticism. Later in life he sarcastically defined Vorticism as whatever it was he had been doing around that time, but the term “Vorticism” was actually coined by Lewis...
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Roberts, William
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...catalogue introduction) that ‘Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally...occasion of the exhibition ‘Vorticism and its Allies’ at the Hayward...statements, declaring that the term Vorticism ‘should only be used in reference...
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Expressionism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Caligari (1919). Expressionism flourished principally in Germany, and took little root in Britain, though W. Lewis , and Vorticism have some affinities with it, and traces of its influence can be found in the verse dramas of Auden and Isherwood , and later...
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