BLAST

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''BLAST'' was a literary magazine that birthed an artistic and social movement called Vorticism. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Ezra Pound], the founders of the Vorticist movement, were also effectively the chief authors of the two-issue magazine. ''BLAST'' contained, among other piece of literature, an aggressive manifesto by Lewis "blasting" conventional British art and culture and proclaiming the Vorticist aesthetic: ‘The New Vortex plunges to the heart of the Present – we produce a New Living Abstraction’. Incidentally, World War I broke out roughly one month after the publication of the first issue. The cultural and political tensions that fueled Vorticism were now at a dangerous climax...how would this affect the heart of the movement?
 
''BLAST'' was a literary magazine that birthed an artistic and social movement called Vorticism. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Ezra Pound], the founders of the Vorticist movement, were also effectively the chief authors of the two-issue magazine. ''BLAST'' contained, among other piece of literature, an aggressive manifesto by Lewis "blasting" conventional British art and culture and proclaiming the Vorticist aesthetic: ‘The New Vortex plunges to the heart of the Present – we produce a New Living Abstraction’. Incidentally, World War I broke out roughly one month after the publication of the first issue. The cultural and political tensions that fueled Vorticism were now at a dangerous climax...how would this affect the heart of the movement?
  
In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we chose to examine both the rhetorical and visual aspects of the content and, in doing so, aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the continuation of Vorticism by analyzing the second issue of ''BLAST''.  
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In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we chose to examine both the rhetorical and visual aspects of the content and, in doing so, aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the continuation of Vorticism.
  
We believe that the outbreak of World War I is what caused the significant differences in the issues of ''BLAST'' and that, because of this, vorticism remained an underlining factor in the magazine.
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We believe that the outbreak of World War I is what caused the significant differences in the issues of ''BLAST'' and that, because of this, Vorticism remained an underlining factor in the magazine.
  
 
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==Timeline==

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