BLAST, World War I, and Tonal Shifts
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Feedback from the midterm presentation: add a thesis statement, add more explanation in the text mining section, add a bit more explanation in the captions of the timeline, add more to the close reading section including some of the artwork. Also he suggested that we remove the WW! history from the timeline and put it in the intro, and then make the timeline back up the text mining section. | Feedback from the midterm presentation: add a thesis statement, add more explanation in the text mining section, add a bit more explanation in the captions of the timeline, add more to the close reading section including some of the artwork. Also he suggested that we remove the WW! history from the timeline and put it in the intro, and then make the timeline back up the text mining section. | ||
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| − | ''BLAST'' was a British magazine with two issues, published in 1914 and 1915. The first issue was known for having a bright pink cover and for being very long. A month after the first issue was released, World War I (WW1) began, and the tone of ''BLAST'' changed drastically. In the second issue, 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 the primary author, Wyndham Lewis's, attempts to keep publishing ''BLAST'', he eventually gave up, starting a new magazine called ''the Tyro''. | + | ''BLAST'' was a British magazine with two issues, published in 1914 and 1915. The first issue was known for having a bright pink cover and for being very long. A month after the first issue was released, World War I (WW1) began, and the tone of ''BLAST'' changed drastically. In the second issue, 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 the primary author, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis's], attempts to keep publishing ''BLAST'', he eventually gave up, starting a new magazine called ''the Tyro''. |
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. | ||
