Short-lived art and literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Emblematic of the modern art ovement in England, Blast is also recognised as a seminal text of pre-war 20th-century modernism. Editorial, War Notes, and several articles by chief writer Wyndham Lewis, including "Artists and the War," "The Exploitation of Blood" and "A Review of Contemporary Art." Poems by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Ford Madox Hueffer (later known as Ford Madox Ford). Article by Gaudier-Brzeska entitled Vortex (written from the Trenches) describes the vorticist aesthetic. 6 p. of ads at rear.
