In the following essay, Wees documents Lewis's activities as the founding figure of the Vorticist movement.
In 1914 Wyndham Lewis devoted much of his time to what he described as his "...
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In the following essay, Wees analyses Pound's role in the development of Vorticism.
Vorticism stands at the center of Ezra Pound's twelve-year stay in London (1908-1920), and it repre...
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In the following essay, Lipke and Rozran criticize William Wees's definition of Vorticism.
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In Who's Who (London) for the years 1915 through 1918, Ezra Pound contributed the followin...
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In the following essay, Wees debates Lipke and Rozran's critique of his definition of Vorticism.
As late as 1956 Ezra Pound was still trying to make people understand what Vorticism was. In ...
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In the following excerpt, Pound explains Vorticist poetry.
"It is no more ridiculous that a person should receive or convey an emotion by means of an arrangement of shapes, or planes, or col...
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In the following essay, Isaak compares the Vorticist movement to Russian Futurism.
"What strikes me as beautiful, what I should like to do," Flaubert wrote, "is a book without ...
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In the following essay, Sheppard examines the similarities and differences between Vorticism and German Expressionism.
Writing in mid-1914, Ezra Pound indicated that he saw an affinity between Vort...
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In the following essay, Graver provides an analysis of Lewis's play Enemy of the Stars.
Lewis and Ezra Pound coined the concept "vorticism" to identify the artistic trend that ...
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In the following essay, Klein explores the narrative motifs that dominate Vorticist drama.
Wyndham Lewis was the only writer and painter in England during the early part of the twentieth century wh...
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In the following essay, Pound explains the forms and techniques of Vorticist painting.
There is perhaps no more authentic sign of the senility of a certain generation of publicists (now, thank heav...
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In the following excerpt, Baker presents a negative perspective on Vorticist art.
In having degenerated so suddenly into such a bore, the Vorticists, or whatever they used to call themselves, have ...
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In the following excerpt, Lewis discusses his involvement in the Vorticist movement and his editorship of Blast.
At some time during the six months that preceded the declaration of war, very sudden...
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In the following essay, Cournos outlines the effects of World War I on Vorticist art.
—"Where there is no wit, there is insolence." As an example of this truth we have Mr. Ezra...
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In the following essay, Sypher discusses the artists associated with Vorticism.
Well under way is a revival of interest in the era of World War I, and not only as the first machine age. Witness the...
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In the following essay, Lipke documents the impact of Italian Futurism on Vorticist painting.
The events which marked the Futurist 'invasion' of English soil from 1911 through the sum...
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The following piece appeared as the opening manifesto to the first issue of Blast.
Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town!
We stand for the Reality of the Present&#x...
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The following piece was the second manifesto published in the first issue of Blast and appeared above the signature of Lewis, Pound, and other members of the Vorticist movement.
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Beyond Action and...
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In the following essay, Dasenbrock considers Vorticism in in the context of other literary and artistic movements of the period.
Though BLAST is principally thought of today as the magazine of Vort...
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In the following essay, Materer provides an overview of Vorticist theories and artistic forms.
At the age of 77, Ezra Pound published his final memorial to the Vortex, the association he began with...
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In the following essay, Tucker studies Pound's contribution to Vorticism as well as its influence on his work.
Groups set the tone for artistic London in the second decade of the century. Th...
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In the following essay, Rae examines the art and literature of the Vorticist movement.
Ezra Pound's proudest contribution to the Vorticist journal Blast, and the only poem that he was ever t...
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In the following essay, Rose examines the careers and friendship of Lewis and Pound from 1910 to 1920.
Of Ezra Pound's many and celebrated literary associations, that with Wyndham Lewis has ...
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft, this time in a moon rocket that hasn't even been built yet.Engineers are concerned that the new rocket meant to replace the s...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Car designs have come a long way from the box-
shaped Ford Model T of the 1920s to the Mercedes Bionic concept car
where the tropical boxfish served as an e...
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The notes of 17th-century researcher Robert Hooke were posted on the Internet on Monday, opening an online window into the man who helped drive Britain's scientific revolution and laying bare his p...
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William C. Wees
NASA moon rocket may shake too much
