Blast was a British art and literature review that only lasted for two issues in 1914 and 1915. It advocated vorticism, a movement that signaled an important stage in British modernism, attacking Victorianism and the Bloomsbury Group.
Blast était une revue d'art et de littérature britannique qui ne dura que deux numéros en 1914 et 1915. Elle défendait le vorticisme, un mouvement qui signalait une étape importante du modernisme en Grande-Bretagne, en attaquant le victorianisme et le groupe de Bloomsbury.
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| Back | the review of the great English vortex intended as a periodical of art and literature lasted for only two issues in July 1914 and July 1915 its advocacy of vorticism signalled an important stage in the development of modernism in Britain. the first issue attacked Victorianism and the Bloomsbury group, promoting in their place mechanical, geometric and nonrepresentational elements derived from such art movements as expressionism, cubism, it carried a manifesto signed by Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, both adherents of imagism, as well as Wyndham Lewis the second issue , published as a 'war number' was mostly written by Lewis, though it contained some poems by T. S. Eliot. |
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