Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.
Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.
Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.
Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.
Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.
Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.

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Blast, July 1915. Review of the Great English Vortex.

LEWIS, Wyndham (ed.)

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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.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: John Lane, The Bodley Head
  • Edition: No. 2, July 1915, Review copy without graphic cover. Same style as No. 1, published July 1914. Final installlment
  • Date Published: 1915
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Fair
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    102, [6] p. 30 cm. 16 b&w designs. Front cover design not present. Gaudier-Brzeska's head of Exra Pound is pasted in. Paper covers. Blind stamp on front states "Review copy with John Lane's Compliments." Spine missing. Covers detached and separated. Small rears and chips to edges. Lower corners chipped and dogeared. Soiling to exterior. Some foxing.

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