Arts Etc: Blast! It's the Real Thing ; Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot - What a Great Art Movement They Made, Says Tom Rosenthal. So Why Is Vorticism So Neglected?

Rosenthal, Tom, The Independent on Sunday (London, England)

We should raise at least two cheers for the Estorick Collection - London's specialist museum of modern Italian art - in mounting the first exhibition on Vorticism in these islands for many years. If Futurism was essentially Italian, Expressionism fundamentally German, Cubism if not wholly French then certainly Paris-centred, Vorticism - the art movement which burnt short and bright in the years 1910-15 - can lay claim to being almost wholly British. One says almost because its demonic leader, Wyndham Lewis, was born in Canada, the man who gave the movement its title, Ezra Pound, was American and much of the movement's early support, since it was literary as well as visually …

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Publication information: Article title: Arts Etc: Blast! It's the Real Thing ; Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot - What a Great Art Movement They Made, Says Tom Rosenthal. So Why Is Vorticism So Neglected?. Contributors: Rosenthal, Tom - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent on Sunday (London, England). Publication date: January 25, 2004. Page number: 7. © 2009 The Independent on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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