{"id":28319,"date":"2011-07-08T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=28319"},"modified":"2011-07-08T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:55:03","slug":"blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28319","title":{"rendered":"Blast!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I.’<\/em><\/p>\n

A few months back, I picked up Black Sparrow Press’ reprints of Wyndham Lewis’ Vorticist journal Blast Magazine.<\/a><\/em> Vorticism was the British entry into the realm of modern art. <\/p>\n

There were only two issues – which ‘blasted’ old Edwardian forms in favor of the new machine aesthetic that was about to take over the world.<\/p>\n

Out with the old, in with the new,<\/em> as it were.<\/p>\n

The two issues of Blast<\/em> – there were only two – are available for browsing at issuu. Check them out here<\/a> and here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

I see a connection between Lewis’ work and the original production design of TRON. But that may just be me.<\/p>\n

There is also a retrospective<\/a> now going on at the Tate. Video referencing the work of Vorticist practitioner Henri Gaudier-Brzeska<\/a> (1891-1915), below.<\/p>\n

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