BLAST, World War I, and Tonal Shifts
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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
| − | BLAST was a British magazine with two editions, published in 1914 and 1915. It followed the Vorticist movement and was written primarily by Wyndham Lewis. The first edition was known for having a bright pink cover and for being very long. A month after the first edition was released, World War I began, and the tone of BLAST changed drastically. In the second edition, the bright pink cover was changed to a light brown and black photo of soldiers in trenches, and the length was halved. Most of the | + | ''BLAST'' was a British magazine with two editions, published in 1914 and 1915. It followed the Vorticist movement and was written primarily by Wyndham Lewis. The first edition was known for having a bright pink cover and for being very long. A month after the first edition was released, World War I began, and the tone of ''BLAST'' changed drastically. In the second edition, the bright pink cover was changed to a light brown and black photo of soldiers in trenches, and the length was halved. Most of the magazine's creators fought in the war and were either killed or lost their interest in modernism. Despite Wyndham Lewis's attempts to keep publishing ''BLAST'', he realized that the Vorticist movement had died during the war and eventually gave up, starting a new magazine called ''the Tyro''. |
==Text Mining== | ==Text Mining== | ||
