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vorticism , short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism . Its members sought to simplify forms into machinelike angularity. Its principal exponent was a French sculptor, Gaudier-Brzeska . The movement, however, had its largest following in England, where Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, 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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vorticism principles of a school of painting originating in 1913 among some members of ‘the London Group’. XX. f. L. vortex, -ic- VORTEX, taken in the sense of the artist's conception of relations in the universe; see -ISM.

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