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Vorticism, 1914-1918

Paul Edwards, Paul Edwards

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351723428
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sozialwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Soziologie

This title was first published in 2000. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis and christened by Ezra Pound, the Vorticism movement was a sustained act of aggression against the moribund Victorianism seen as stifling to artistic energies. Inspired by the example of F.T.Marinetti and the Futurists, the Vorticists were nevertheless harshly critical of the Futurists' naive enthusiasm for modernity. They created their own style of geometric abstraction to celebrate the new consciousness of humanity in a mechanized urban environment. But their splintered and discordant style also measured the cost of the psychic disruption that modernity caused. This illustrated guide to the movement covers topics including sculpture, painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism and Vorticist aesthetics.

Index

Numbers of black and white figures are given in bold; references to colour plates are in the form pl.XV

'Abstract Art in England 1913-1915' (exhibition) 10

Adeney, W.B. 124 n52, 126 n101

Aldington, Richard 13, 16, 35, 119

'Allied Artists' Association' 11, 17, 27, 31, 41, 43, 51, 61,64

Altieri, Charles 132 n31

Antliff, Mark 123 n24, 129 n48

Apollinaire, Guillaume

'L'Antitradizione Futurista' ('Uanti-tradition futuriste') 18, 113

Arbuthnot, Malcolm 13, 16

Archipenko, Alexander 44, 47

Arts and Crafts movement 15, 29

Ashbee, C.R. 29

Atkinson, Lawrence 11, 16, 22, 33, 64

Abstract 33, pl.X

Cafe Tables 63

Balla, Giacomo 132 n26

Ballets Russes 66

Baron, Wendy 124 n50

Barr, Alfred 60

Barthelme, Donald 114

Baudelaire, Charles 17

Beckett, Jane 10, 70, 128 nn10, 25, 129 n55, 130 n61, 131 n107

Bell, Clive 11, 25, 27–8, 30, 32,124 nn41 2 Art 25

'The English Group' 11, 25, 123 nn18, 19

'The New Post-Impressionist Show' 124 nn41, 42

significant form and 11, 25, 26

Bell, Quentin, and Stephen Chaplin 121 n16

Bell, Vanessa 11, 29, 32, 61, 72, 121–2 n17

Abstract Painting 32, 131 n120

Composition 131 n120

46 Gordon Square 131 n107

Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting 32

Mrs St John Hutchinson 32

Studland Beach 32

Virginia Woolf at Asheham 32

Benstock, Shari 130 n60

Bergson, Henri 16, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 36, 62, 113, 114, 12...