Wyndham Lewis's arts movement Vorticism was baptized on 20 June 1914 in the first issue of BLAST: A Review of the Great English Vortex, the revolutionary magazine. BLAST is now considered one of the 20th century's most glowing examples of modernist expression and typography, both historically indispensable and a milestone in modern thought. To the audience of its time, the first issue of BLAST came as a brutal shock, a quality that has been preserved in this first facsimile edition, which documents in its in original format ...
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Wyndham Lewis's arts movement Vorticism was baptized on 20 June 1914 in the first issue of BLAST: A Review of the Great English Vortex, the revolutionary magazine. BLAST is now considered one of the 20th century's most glowing examples of modernist expression and typography, both historically indispensable and a milestone in modern thought. To the audience of its time, the first issue of BLAST came as a brutal shock, a quality that has been preserved in this first facsimile edition, which documents in its in original format the raw energy, violent humour, graphic inventiveness and intellectual hard edge of the most compelling and vital magazine project of the modernist movement.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1300grams, ISBN: 9780500287828.
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Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.
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Various. Fair. The first edition of the first issue of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist literary magazine, an example of the modernist movement before World War One. The first installment of 'Blast Magazine', the first edition of this seminal work, published on the 20th June 1914. Â Illustrated with fourteen plates. 'Blast' was a short lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, of which only two issues were published. The magazine is emblematic of the modern art movement in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. Â The magazine was primarily written by Wyndham Lewis, though this issue also contained contributions from Ezra Pound, Rebecca West, and an extract of Ford Madox Hueffer's 'The Saddest Story', which later was known as his 'The Good Solider'. The first twenty pages of this issue contain the Vorticist manifesto. However, war was declared on Germany just 33 days after this issue was published, an event which destroyed vorticism. Â Vorticism began in the Rebel Art Centre and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism and Futurism. Ezra Pound coined the word 'Vorticism' for the movement and he produced many paintings in the same style. Without the original pink wraps, also bound without six plates, lacking plates v-viii, and xvii-xviii. Four pages of adverts to the rear. A fascinating example of this short-lived movement's main creation. Lacking the publisher's original pink paper wraps. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Light edge wear and heavier spots to the title page. Plates ix, xii, xix, and xx are detached but present. Bound without six plates. Fair.
