VORTICISM

vôrˈtĭsĭzəm, short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism. Its members sought to simplify forms into machinelike angularity. Its principal exponent was a French sculptor, Gaudier-Brzeska. The movement, however, had its largest following in England, where Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot wrote about it.

See W. C. Wees, Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde, 1910–1915 (1972).

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books on: Vorticism  - 286 results

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The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
Book by Miranda B. Hickman; University of Texas Press, 2005
Subjects: American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Fascism And Literature--English-Speaking Countries, Geometry In Literature, H. D--(Hilda Doolittle)--1886-1961--Criticism And Interpretation, Lewis, Wyndham--1882-1957--Criticism And Interpretation, Modernism (Literature)--English-Speaking Countries, Pound, Ezra--1885-1972--Criticism And Interpretation, Vorticism--English-Speaking Countries, Yeats, W. B--(William Butler)--1865-1939--Criticism And Interpretation
...Fortnightly Review, Mr. Ezra Pound writes on Vorticism. Whether he knows it or not, Vorticism is dead. It was, at best, only a big name...Blast, which was devoted to the propaganda of Vorticism, I doubt whether another issue will appear...
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Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922
Book by Ann L. Ardis; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Culture Conflict In Literature, Culture Conflict--Great Britain, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain
...essay in the Fortnightly Review on Vorticism and dismisses both Pounds promotion...relationship between Imagism and Vorticism in the following manner: Whether or not Mr. Ezra Pound knows it, Vorticism is dead. It was, at best, only...
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Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past
Book by Louise Blakeney Williams; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, History In Literature, Literature And History--English-Speaking Countries--History--20th Century, Modernism (Literature)--English-Speaking Countries
...April 1914. 37 Pound also defined literary Vorticism, which was his own branch of vorticism. He, of course, included his own work and...literary theory, was the literary branch of Vorticism. But Pound also tried to include Yeats and...
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...Futurism as melodramatic, but it-- like Vorticism--was essentially concerned with showing...buildings, bridges and works. Because Vorticism shared some of the loud aggressiveness...fragmentation of forms characteristic of Vorticism was undoubtedly indebted to Cubism...
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Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory
Book by Steve Giles; Routledge, 1993
...Cubism and Futurism are so present in Vorticism defers this closure into the representational...it is impossible to ask questions of Vorticism without also asking questions about the...the most obvious way this means that Vorticism cannot but help invoke the problematics...
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journal articles on: Vorticism  - 44 results

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"Chaos Invading Concept": Blast as a Native Theory of Promotional Culture
Journal article by Paige Reynolds; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Advertising--Literature, Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Advertising, Blast (Periodical)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lewis, Wyndham--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literary movements--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Modernism--Marketing, Periodicals--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Pound, Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...emerge the English avant-garde movement vorticism. Lewis, Pound, and the other artists...The aggression that would characterize vorticism was evident in this first ad, for it...position is a limiting one. Given that vorticism was so aggressively nationalistic, it...
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The Modern Artist as Historian, Courtier, and Saint: Typology and Art History from Vasari to Pound
Journal article by Lynne Walhout Hinojosa; CLIO, Vol. 35, 2006
Subjects: Antisemitism--Analysis, Pound, Ezra--Criticism and interpretation, Pound, Ezra--Political activity, Pound, Ezra--Works, Vasari, Giorgio--Criticism and interpretation, Vasari, Giorgio--Works
...Gaudier to Pounds own aesthetic theory (Vorticism). In addition to the two essays from...publication in 1916, Gaudiers manifestos on vorticism, and Gaudiers letters written from the...is devoted to Pounds ideas regarding Vorticism and its place in modern life, and his...
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Ezra Pound's Encounter with Wang Wei: Toward the "Ideogrammic Method" of the Cantos
Journal article by Zhaomin Qian; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 39, 1993
Subjects: Chinese poetry--Influence, Pound, Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Cantos (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wang Wei--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...fascination for him. In a note to his "Vorticism" article, he implied that he would like...Taoism/Zen-Buddhism with his imagism/vorticism.) As Reed Way Dasenbrock observes, "Vorticism and Taoism could be prarallel, perhaps...
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Richard Wright's 'The Man Who Lived Underground,' Nihilism, and Zen
Journal article by Yoshinobu Hakutani; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994
Subjects: Existentialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Materialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Wright, Richard (Author)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...intensive art. In expounding his theory of vorticism, Pound argued that a writer should be...louder."(19) Pounds statement about vorticism also echoes in Zen aesthetics. Yone...life of death. (19)Ezra Pound, "Vorticism," Fortnightly Review, no. 573, n...
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Aesthetics, Politics and the Staging of the World: Wyndham Lewis and the Renaissance
Journal article by Sharon Stockton; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 42, 1996
Subjects: Critics--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lewis, Wyndham--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Litterateurs--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...then, Nazi ideology moves easily in the vorticism Lewis developed prior to his direct involvement...NOTES 1 Reed Way Dasenbrocks Literary Vorticism examines in fascinating detail Lewiss...Dasenbrock, Reed Way. The Literary Vorticism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. Baltimore...
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magazine articles on: Vorticism  - 12 results

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Brilliant Cruelty; Wyndham Lewis's Portraits Are Wonderfully Ruthless Appraisals of the Literati of His Time
Magazine article by Michael Glover; New Statesman, Vol. 137, July 21, 2008
Subjects: Artists--Exhibitions, Artists--Works, Lewis, Wyndham--Exhibitions, Lewis, Wyndham--Works, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions
...his time. As the driving force behind vorticism, one of the few English avant-garde...shifted from the severe abstraction of vorticism to something quite close to naturalism...be assembled from parts of herself. Vorticism began in mechanisation, the idea that...
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A Well-Made Young Wolf
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 133, March 15, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Gaudier-Brzeska: An Absolute Case of Genius (Book)--Book reviews
...loss of an astonishingly precocious talent. Just before the war broke out, Gaudier had played a vital role in the birth of vorticism, Englands most impressive contribution to the modernist upheaval in early 20th-century Europe. Ezra Pound, his friend...
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LUCY McKENZIE
Magazine article by Michael Archer; Artforum International, Vol. 40, September 2001
Subjects: McKenzie, Lucy--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Abstract--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women painters--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Curious, 1998, a close-up rear view of a female hurdler bent over at the starting blocks, while elsewhere it aped the Vorticism of David Bomberg. A battered, white painted wooden screen stood bunched up toward one corner of the room, partially obscuring...
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Bohemian Rhapsodies
Magazine article by Lucy Lethbridge; New Statesman, Vol. 136, December 10, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Edward Burra: 20th-Century Eye (Book)--Book reviews
...Burras work shows the influence of many of the artistic movements of the 20th century--German expressionism, surrealism and vorticism; and yet he is still very much his own man, a painter of quirky individualism with a gimlet eye for seediness both lonely...
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Canon Fodder: Carol Armstrong on the Whitney Museum and Tate Modern Collections
Magazine article by Carol Armstrong; Artforum International, Vol. 45, November 2006
Subjects: Art, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Modern art--Criticism and interpretation, Modern art--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions, Museums--Criticism and interpretation, Museums--Exhibitions, Tate Modern--Collections and collecting, Tate Modern--Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)--Collections and collecting, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)--Exhibitions
...trips into its photography holdings and its recent acquisitions): "States of Flux" (with a hub of Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism); "Idea and Object" (Minimalism); "Material Gestures" (postwar painting and sculpture--which is to say, AbEx...
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CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE? Wyndham Lewis Said That the Vorticists Were 'At the Heart of the Whirlpool ... Where All the Energy Is Concentrated' but Today Their Graphic Abstracts Seem More Style over Substance EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 16, 2011
Subjects: Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri--Exhibitions, Lewis, Wyndham--Exhibitions, Pound, Ezra--Exhibitions
...mind. They are part of the history of Vorticism only because they were the V pseudo...Christopher Nevinson drew close to Vorticism but V was never quite sucked in. A month...returned to London he was convinced that Vorticism could be revived; by then, however...
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Scare the Horses? No, They'd Just Bore Them; ART
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 24, 2011
Subjects: Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, Pound, Ezra
...very own horsefrightening movement? Vorticism lasted all of five years, and left very...and the painter David Bomberg drew on vorticism, but moved on into a richer language...he not been killed tragically young. Vorticism is unmistakably mannered. Its sharp...
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Poet Painter; Writer's Block: The Darkness and the Black Shadows on the Skin of TS Eliot Suit the Poet's Mood of Blank-Eyed Introspection Writer's Block II: Above, Edith Sitwell, Poet, Historian, Writer in the Bloomsbury Tradition, Reduced to a Cypher in the Pseudo- Cubist Clutter of Her Study. below, an Early Self- Portrait of Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 29, 2008
Subjects: Historians, Poets
...far too restricted a field to justify as an introduction to Vorticism, the rebellious movement that only a month before the outbreak...vortex, said Ezra Pound, the poet who had coined the term Vorticism, "is the point of maximum energy greatest efficiency...
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Hotbed of Talent and Love That Made Art out of War
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 8, 2010
...one new movement followed another. Nevinson, imitating the Italians, becomes a Futurist, while Wyndham Lewis promoted Vorticism. With hindsight, the latters harsh, aggressive style can be seen to prefigure war. This was the crisis that redirected...
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Looking Back at a Century in Words; Every Year Is Marked by Events Which Influence the Way We Define Our Lives - and Our Language. Finola Lynch Reports
Newspaper article by Finola Lynch; The Birmingham Post (England), December 4, 1998
...1913: Isotope (n one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number that contain different numbers of neutrons) 1914: Vorticism (n an art movement initiated by Wyndham Lewis) 1915: Tank 1912: Dada (n nihilistic artistic movement) 1917: Cheka...
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encyclopedia articles on: Vorticism  - 4 results

 
 
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Vorticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VORTICISM vor tisiz m, short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism...James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot wrote about it. See W. C. Wees, Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde, 1910 1915 (1972...
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Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GAUDIER-BRZESKA, HENRI aNre godya -b rzeska , 1891 1915, French sculptor. He was the chief exponent of vorticism in sculpture. Mainly self-taught in England and Germany, Gaudier showed exceptional precocity in his draftsmanship, animal...
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Pound, Ezra Loomis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In England he came to dominate the avant-garde movements of the time first leading the imagists and later championing vorticism . Both these movements sought to free post-Victorian verse from its staleness and conventionality. Pound encouraged many...
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Lewis, Wyndham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ship on the Bay of Fundy. With Ezra Pound, he was cofounder and editor of Blast (1914 15), a magazine connected with vorticism . Lewiss paintings, however, were not limited to the cubism of the vorticists; he produced many conventional works that...


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