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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 Vorticism. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis| 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’.
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''BLAST'' was a literary magazine concerning an artistic and social movement called Vorticism. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis 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.

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