BLAST, World War I, and Tonal Shifts
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Along with being a normal magazine, ''BLAST'' was also a manifesto declaring the creation of the Vorticist movement, a modernist movement in Britain focused on geometric shapes and abstraction. A large portion of the magazine was devoted to reviewing the state of art in Great Britain. Partly in order to declare Vorticism as separate from other British art, ''BLAST'' was very different from any other magazine of the time. The magazine was huge, with dimensions of 12 by 9.5 inches, and it often used large, block letters without any particular organization on the pages. | Along with being a normal magazine, ''BLAST'' was also a manifesto declaring the creation of the Vorticist movement, a modernist movement in Britain focused on geometric shapes and abstraction. A large portion of the magazine was devoted to reviewing the state of art in Great Britain. Partly in order to declare Vorticism as separate from other British art, ''BLAST'' was very different from any other magazine of the time. The magazine was huge, with dimensions of 12 by 9.5 inches, and it often used large, block letters without any particular organization on the pages. | ||
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| + | Thesis: The outbreak of World War 1 in between the two issues of BLAST caused the magazine to become much darker, more focused on the war and on politics than on art for art's sake. | ||
| + | Feel free to change the thesis if you want. | ||
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