Full Description
The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism and its English rival Bloomsbury was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries. Vorticism: New Perspectives is the first volume to attend to the full range of the movements innovations, providing investigations into every aspect of the Vorticists artistic production: their avant-garde experiments in print culture, art criticism, theater, poetry, exhibition practice, manifesto writing, literature, sculpture, painting, and photography. The rich and varied essays in this volume constitute a timely and comprehensive reassessment of a key chapter in the history of modernism, and will be of interest to scholars across the full range of the humanities.
Contents
Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Notes on Contributors ; Mark Antliff and Scott W. Klein, Introduction: "Vorticisms" ; Prologue ; Chapter 1: Fredric Jameson, "Wyndham Lewis's Timon: The War of Forms" ; Part I: Vorticism in European Context ; Chapter 2: Rebecca Beasley, "Vortorussophilia" ; Chapter 3: Andrzej G?siorek, "Modern Art in England circa 1914: T. E. Hulme and Wyndham Lewis" ; Chapter 4: Scott W. Klein, "How German Is It: Vorticism, Nationalism, and the Paradox of Aesthetic Self-Definition" ; Part II: Machine Aesthetics, Primitivism, Cultural Politics ; Chapter 5: Jonathan Black, "Constructing a Chinese-Puzzle Universe>": Industry, National Identity, and Edward Wadsworth's Vorticist Woodcuts of West Yorkshire, 1914-1916" ; Chapter 6: Mark Antliff, "Politicizing the New Sculpture" ; Chapter 7: Miranda Hickman, "The Gender of Vorticism: Jessie Dismorr, Helen Saunders, and Vorticist Feminism" ; Part III: Vorticism and America ; Chapter 8: Alan Antliff, "Ezra Pound, Man Ray, and Vorticism in America, 1914-1917" ; Chapter 9: Anne McCauley, "Witch Work, Art Work, and the Spiritual Roots of Abstraction: Ezra Pound, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the Vortographs" ; Chapter 10: Vivien Greene, "John Quinn and Vorticist Painting: The Eye (and Purse) of an American Collector" ; Part IV: Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism and After ; Chapter 11: Paul Edwards, "Blast and the Revolutionary Mood of Wyndham Lewis's Vorticism" ; Chapter 12: Martin Puchner, "World and Stage in Enemy of the Stars" ; Chapter 13: Douglas Mao, "Blasting and Disappearing" ; Bibliography
