The year 2014 brings the 100th anniversary of the founding of Vorticism, a short-lived and militant English art and literary movement that defiantly rejected the popular conventions of the day.
Numbering writers, painters, printmakers, sculptors and photographers among its flock, Vorticism demanded the destruction of “civilized” vision to unleash the unconscious genius inherent in every individual.
The pages of the magazine Blast exemplified the movement’s brash assault on the staid sensibilities of the times with bold typography, biting humor and a blanket refusal to conform to academic standards or popular scripture.
Vorticism demanded the liberation of the artist from the suffocating burdens of an imperial and militaristic age. A few days after the publication of the first issue of Blast, Vorticism was overwhelmed by the opening of the larger art and literary event known to us as World War One.
This publication commemorates the 100th anniversary of the publication of Blast and celebrates the Vorticist manifesto.
Masthead and End Plate
Masthead image Abstract Composition (1915) by Jessica Dismorr is in the public domain.
End plate image Entartete Kunst 1 The Art Critic (2014) by P. Maudit. Used by permission of the artist.
Part I Umm-E-Aiman Vejlani John Pursch Joseph Farley Tim Gardiner Bharghab Chatterjee Joanna M. Weston Anuradha Bhattacharyya Ian Mullins Doug Draime A. Patocka Miriam C. Jacobs Marc Carver Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke Byron Beynon Tammy T. Stone Perry L. Powell
Benjamin Grossman Jeremiah Walton Kyrsten Bean Ryan Quinn Flanagan Michael Cooper Douglas Polk KJ Hannah Greenberg
Part II Douglas Polk Bryan Merck Kyrsten Bean Donal Mahoney Chris Butler G. Tod Slone Subhankar Das Jan Oskar Hansen A. V. Koshy David S. Pointer Mitchell Garrard Ali Znaidi Sangeeta Suneja Peter Franklin Linda M. Crate Dave Migman Ayaz Daryl Nielsen
Rachel J. Fenton Alan Britt Joan McNerney Tony Rickaby Catfish McDaris Patrick Longe Martha Landman
Publisher's Statement
This issue is a special edition of The Camel Saloon, Number 6 of The Eye of the Needle series, published by Poets Democracy, LLC, Johns Creek, Georgia, 2014.
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