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Vorticism
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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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Vorticism." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Vorticism." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Vorticism.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Vorticism." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Vorticism.html |
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vorticism
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.
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"vorticism." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "vorticism." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-vorticis.html "vorticism." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-vorticis.html |
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vorticism
vorticism British art movement. Derived from cubism and Italian futurism, it originated (1913) with Wyndham Lewis' attempt to express the spirit of the time in harsh angular forms derived from machinery. David Bomberg, Ezra Loomis Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Jacob Epstein were also members of the movement. The term was coined by Ezra Pound.
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"vorticism." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "vorticism." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-vorticism.html "vorticism." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-vorticism.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "vorticism." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "vorticism." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-vorticism.html T. F. HOAD. "vorticism." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-vorticism.html |
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