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Blast
Distributed worldwide exclusively by ConcordMedia.org.uk, this film covers the brief history of Vorticism: Britain #39;s only #39;home-grown #39; Modernist art movement. Counterpart in some respects of Futurism in Italy and Cubism in France, Vorticism was launched in 1914 with the publication of the first issue of its magazine Blast containing the Vorticist Manifesto signed by painter and novelist Wyndham Lewis and ten other artists and writers. Here they denounced the bourgeois conventions and hypocrisy of Victorian England, and proclaimed their faith in a new dynamic, machine-made culture appropriate to the 20th century. However in contrast to their Futurist contemporaries, who tended to idolise every aspect of technological change, the Vorticists adopted a more equivocal attitude towards machines, viewing them simultaneously as tools, adversaries, and prey. "We hunt machines, they are our favourite game. We invent them and then hunt them down." In their art, the Vorticists repudiated the irregularities of natural form in favour of hard, metallic, angular surfaces expressive of urban industrial civilisation. By the time of the second-and last-issue of Blast in 1915, war had broken out, and one of the members of the group, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska had already been killed. During the following years the savagely destructive capabilities of machines were overwhelmingly demonstrated. Responding to the war Jacob Epstein (closely associated with Vorticism though not a signatory of the ...From:ConcordMediaUKViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:19More inEducation

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