BLAST
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The following is a theoretical study of ''BLAST'' magazine conducted through digital means and techniques. | The following is a theoretical study of ''BLAST'' magazine conducted through digital means and techniques. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
| − | ''BLAST'' was a literary magazine concerning an artistic and social movement called | + | ''BLAST'' was a literary magazine concerning an artistic and social movement called Vorticism. Wyndham Lewis and 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’. |
In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the second issue of the magazine.The war broke out a mere month after the first issue, and we pondered how the conflict affected the heart of the Vorticist movement and, consequently, the content of the magazine. | In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the second issue of the magazine.The war broke out a mere month after the first issue, and we pondered how the conflict affected the heart of the Vorticist movement and, consequently, the content of the magazine. | ||
