Vorticism Revitalized

A 2010 Duke University exhibition and symposium became the occasion for thirteen essays that update scholarship and provide a renewed overview of the major figures and cultural and historical contexts of Vorticism. Well illustrated and comprehensive, Vorticism: New Perspectives aspires to both broaden an awareness of Vorticism’s variegated artistic history in Europe and America while also probing the engagement of key visual artists associated with the movement. The collection also includes original and astute commentaries on the politics, aesthetics, and personalities of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound as well as on the journal, Blast. The essays impressively elucidate the conceptual foundations and interdisciplinary artistic range that comprised Vorticism. This leaves the reader with much to discover, appraise and, in the end, reconsider not only in relation to Vorticism but research focused on early-twentieth-century modernism.