Blast: Vorticism 1914-1918

by Paul Edwards, Richard Cork

Vorticism was the only British avant-garde movement to make an original contribution to European Modernism. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis, and christened by Ezra Pound, the movement was a sustained act of aggression against the moribund and moderate Victorianism that Lewis and Pound saw as stifling the artistic energies of the new generation in England.

Vorticism's relatively brief life is successfully captured in this, the first fully-illustrated guide to the movement in English in over 25 years. It includes a chapter by Richard Cork on Vorticist sculpture, other chapters discuss painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism, and Vorticist aesthetics.

Genres: Art

144 pages, Hardcover

First published October 9, 2000

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Paul Edwards is a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University with the honorific title, Professor of English and History of Art. His book, 'Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer' (Yale University Press, 2000) is the most comprehensive study of Lewis's work written to date. In a review in the Guardian, Edwards was described as 'probably the world's leading Lewis scholar'. Edwards has edited several books by (Percy) Wyndham Lewis and published 'Wyndham Lewis: Art and War', and with Richard Humphreys, Edwards was joint curator of the exhibition, 'Wyndham Lewis Portraits', at the National Portrait Gallery (July - October 2008).