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 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 Vorticist movement?
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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 Vorticist movement?
  
 
In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the second issue of the magazine. We chose to examine both the rhetorical and visual aspects of the content.
 
In our exploration of ''BLAST'', we aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the second issue of the magazine. We chose to examine both the rhetorical and visual aspects of the content.

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