BLAST
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''BLAST'' was a literary magazine concerning an artistic and social movement called "Vorticism" that was published about a month before World War I began. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, authors of ''BLAST'', were the founders for the Vorticist movement. ''BLAST'' was, essentially, the birth of Vorticism, as this magazine is where the Vorticist Manifesto was first solidified and made publicly known. | ''BLAST'' was a literary magazine concerning an artistic and social movement called "Vorticism" that was published about a month before World War I began. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, authors of ''BLAST'', were the founders for the Vorticist movement. ''BLAST'' was, essentially, the birth of Vorticism, as this magazine is where the Vorticist Manifesto was first solidified and made publicly known. | ||
| − | In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I | + | In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the second issue of the magazine. |
The concepts that most captured our interest were the inclusions and uses of the words "war", "art", and "man". How did the beginning of World War 1 impact the publication and how does the altered usage of these words articulate the resulting differences? | The concepts that most captured our interest were the inclusions and uses of the words "war", "art", and "man". How did the beginning of World War 1 impact the publication and how does the altered usage of these words articulate the resulting differences? | ||
