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| Blast 2 – War Number |
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| Facsimile edition edited by Wyndham Lewis |
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| The second and final issue of Lewis's BLAST — The War Number — appeared in July, 1915, and is a very worthy successor of the first BLAST published in 1914. It features a dynamic cover by Lewis and more of his highly charged propaganda on behalf of Vorticism in painting, sculpture and literature. It also contains prose and poetry by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and the historic instructive aesthetics of ''Vortex (written from the Trenches)'' by Gaudier-Brzeska — a piece composed just before the sculptor's death in France. |
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| L o n g L i v e t h e V o r t e x ! |
Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town!
We stand for the Reality of the Present — not for the sentimental Future, or the sacripant Past.
We want to leave Nature and men alone.
The only way Humanity can help artists is to remain independent and work unconsciously.
WE NEED THE UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HUMANITY — their stupidity, animalism and dreams.
We believe in no perfectibility except our own.
Intrinsic beauty is in the Interpreter and Seer, not in the object or content.
WE ONLY WANT THE WORLD TO LIVE, and to feel its crude energy flowing through us.
Blast sets out to be a venue for all those vivid and violent ideas that could reach the Public in no other way.
Blast will be popular, essentially. It will not apppeal to any particular class, but to the fundamental and popular instincts in every class and description of people. TO THE INDIVIDUAL. The moment a man feels or realizes himself as an artist, he ceases to belong to any milieu or time. Blast is created for this timeless, fundamental Artist that exists in everybody.
We want to make in England not a popular art, not a revival of lost folk art, or a romantic fostering of such unactual conditions, but to make individuals, wherever found.
We will convert the King if possible.
A VORTICIST KING ! WHY NOT ? |
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112 pages, Paperback, 9'' x 12'' (305 x 230 mm)
26 b/w illustrations, English
ISBN: 0-87685-523-0 |
| $ 17.50 |
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