Full Description
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 created their own style of geometric abstraction to celebrate the new consciousness of humanity in a mechanized urban environment. But their splintered and discordant style also measured the cost of the psychic disruption that modernity caused. This illustrated guide to the movement covers topics including sculpture, painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism and Vorticist aesthetics.
Contents
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
