144 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis and christened by Ezra Pound, the Vorticism movement was a sustained act of aggression against the moribund Victorianism seen as stifling to artistic energies. Inspired by the example of F.T.Marinetti and the Futurists, the Vorticists were nevertheless harshly critical of the Futurists' naive enthusiasm for modernity. They... Read more
List of Illustrations, Introduction, 'A Laugh Like a Bomb': The History and the Ideas of the Vorticists, Rebels and Vorticists: 'Our Little Gang', Vorticism and Sculpture, Reconceptualizing Vorticism: Women, Modernity, Modernism
COLOUR PLATES I-XL, 'You Must Speak with Two Tongues': Wyndham Lewis's Vorticist Aesthetics and Literature, Notes, Biographical Notes, Notes on Contributors, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Paul Edwards
