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vorticism

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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). Author not available, VORTICISM. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
vorticism
World Encyclopedia vorticism British art movement. Derived from cubism and Italian futurism , it originated (1913) with Wyndham Lewis' attempt to express the ... Read more
Vorticism
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... the visual arts, Vorticist compositions were abstract and sharp-planed, showing the influence of Cubism and Futurism . Artists involved in the movement included the poet Ezra Pound and the sculptor Jacob Epstein . Vorticism Vorticism Vorticism Read more

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London Illustrated: Blasting the future: Vorticism in Britain
The Independent on Sunday; 2/1/2004; 223 words ; Vorticism was one of the most important and distinctive avant ... was the American poet Ezra Pound who coined the name Vorticism. Their manifesto expounded the ideas of an audacious ... was an immensely influential one. Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920, Estorick Collection , 39a Canonbury ... Read more
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?
The Independent on Sunday; 1/25/2004; Tom Rosenthal; 929 words ; ... in mounting the first exhibition on Vorticism in these islands for many years. If Futurism ... 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 ... Read more
From Vortex to Vorticism: Ezra Pound's art and science.
Intertexts; 3/22/2005; Pfannkuchen, Antje; 7460 words ; ... the First World War and at the time when Vorticism was founded, the views of British physics ... emerges from this conviction is called Vorticism. Vorticism was more crucial for Pound and his artistic ... published in 1913, the year before the birth of Vorticism, Pound drew a comparison between the ... Read more
Where's the anger?
The Spectator; 2/21/2004; Lambirth, Andrew; 1145 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-century ... It is not really an in-depth study of Vorticism, but rather an intimate comparative exercise ... Read more
"Chaos Invading Concept": Blast as a Native Theory of Promotional Culture.
Twentieth Century Literature; 6/22/2000; REYNOLDS, PAIGE; 13284 words ; ... Millais's Bubbles from the Illustrated London News, which had published the painting in its ... household name through full-page newspaper ads, news coverage, cartoons, and posters. He spent ... Sorrows of Satan. 1895. New York: American News, 1910. Cork, Richard. Vorticism and Abstract ... Read more
To search for God in every blade of grass Art
The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/22/2004; Michael Prodger; 1299 words ; ... Raphaelite Vision Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ... Collection, north London, Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920 (until April 18). Vorticism was a short-lived movement, founded in ... Read more
Enigma Variation: Edward Wadsworth's 'Marine Still-Lifes' and Giorgio de Chirico
Visual Culture in Britain; 1/1/2006; Vere, Bernard; 7107 words ; ... channels)'.2 In 1914 Wadsworth was, with Lewis, at the very centre of the vortex. If Vorticism is to be seen as anything more than Lewis' famous claim that it was 'what I, personally ... harbours. Yet in contrast to the bustling industry conjured up as the inspiration for Vorticism, these 'marine still-lifes' are ... Read more
No things but ideas. (On Poetry).(New Collected Poems)(George Oppen)
The New Leader; 1/1/2002; Pettingell, Phoebe; 2101 words ; ... the teens to the 1930s, idea-based verse like Imagism and Vorticism began to flourish, and choked off the competition even as ... Thus, just as the Great War was the catalyst for Imagism and Vorticism, the Great Depression spawned Objectivism. Williams, Louis ... Read more
Love thy neighbourhood
The Spectator; 2/3/2007; Hattersley, Roy; 710 words ; ... of 'Rock Drill', Epstein's contribution to the violence of Vorticism which had to be emasculated to make it less intimidating before ... It was a cold night and I suspected that a discussion of Vorticism held little charm for my concerned neighbour. So, putting ... Read more
Aesthetics, politics and the staging of the world: Wyndham Lewis and the renaissance. (author)
Twentieth Century Literature; 12/22/1996; Stockton, Sharon; 9253 words ; ... has become overt political propaganda for German fascism. Significantly, then, Nazi ideology moves easily in the vorticism Lewis developed prior to his direct involvement in politics, and his enemy rhetoric is easily applied to a defense ... sleep of the machine, so is individual initiative disempowered by a crushing ... Read more

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