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Conclusion & Links

Although Vorticism was a short-lived movement, the importance of its ideologies is growing in an increasingly technological world. In the information age, the environment in contrast to the chaotic and vicious one that threatened autonomy in Enemy of the Stars, is soothing and passive. How seductive the world of the Internet is, as it offers to remove the difficulty and self-consciousness of individuality through the means of chat-room names and faceless anonymity. The individual at the terminal may feel somewhat secure and in control through the use of the mouse, but what of the addict in cyberspace who develops web-pages in a creative effort to affirm self while constantly being assuaged into the gentle passivity of the entertaining graphics and sound-bytes that inhabit the internet. When the mouse becomes obsolete and is replaced by hardware that can link directly to thoughts, the concerns of the Vorticist should be the concerns of all.

wpe2.gif (30828 bytes) Cover of Blast 1 1914

The Contributors to Blast 1 (Excluding Wyndham Lewis)

Ezra Pound….Poetry and "Vortex"

Ford Maddox Hueffer…. "The Saddest Story"

Rebecca West…. "Indissoluble Matrimony"

Gaudier Brzeska…. "Vortex"

Edward Wadsworth…. Illustrations "Newcastle-on-Tyne" and others

Frederick Etchells…. Illustrations "Head", "Patchoplois", and "Dieppe"

W. Roberts…. Illustrations "Dancers" and "religion"

Jacob Epstein…. Illustrations "Drawing"

Gaudier Brezeska…. Illustrations "Stags"

Cuthbert Hamilton…. Illustrations "Group"

Spencer Gore…. Illustrations "Brighton Pier" and "Richmond Houses"

Cover Blast 2, 1915

The Contributors to Blast 2 (Excluding Wyndham Lewis)

Ezra Pound…. Poems and "Chronicles"

Gaudier Brzeska…. "Vortex (written from the trenches)"

Ford Madox Hueffer…. "The Old Houses of Flanders"

T.S. Eliot…. "Preludes" and "Rhapsody of a Windy Night"

J. Dismorr…. Poems and Notes"

H. Sanders "a Vision of Mud"

(and Various designs)

Bibliography & Links

Allen, Walter. "The Achievement of Wyndham Lewis." Encounter 21.3 (1963): 63-70.

Cassidy, Victor. "Who Was Wyndham Lewis?" The New Criterion 11.10 (1993):26-28.

Chapman, R.T. "Edited by Wyndham Lewis." Durham Lewis Journal 36 (1975): 13-24

Dasenbrock, Reedway. "Among the Isms." Blast 3 Ed. Seamus Rooney. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow

Press, 1984.

Foshay, Toby Avard. "Wyndham Lewis’s Vorticist Metaphysic." Ariel: A Review of International English

Literature.

Graver, David. "Vorticist Performance and Aesthetic Turbulence in Enemy of the Stars." PMLA 107.3

(1992): 482-496.

Jenkins, Alan. "Art Like War Like Love." Encounter 62 (1984): 40.

Kush ,Thomas. Wyndham Lewis’s Pictorial Interger. Ann Arbor: UMI Research P, 1982.

LaFourcase, Bernard. Creativity in Famille: A Study of Genetic Manipulation: A Bibliography of the

Writings of Wyndham Lewis. Ed. Branford Morrow. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.

Lewis, Wyndham. "Futurism, Magic, and Life." Blast 1 (1914): 134.

Lewis, Wyndham. "The New Ego." Blast 1 (1914): 141-145.

Lewis, Wyndham. Enemy of the Stars…Wyndham Lewis: Collected Poems and Plays. Ed. Alan Mutton.

Manchester: Carcanet, 1979.

Lewis, Wyndham. The Ideal Giant… Wyndham Lewis: Collected Poems and Plays. Ed. Alan Mutton.

Manchester: Carcanet, 1979.

Materer, Timtohy. Vortex: Pound, Eliot, and Lewis. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1979.

Molesworth, Charles. "Frightful Fashions and Compulsive Occasions." Salmagundi 50 (Fall 1980-Winter

1981): 323-339.

Tuma, Keith. "Wyndham Lewis, Blast, and Popular Culture." ELH 54.2 (1987): 403-419.

Weistein, Ulrich. "Vorticism: Expressionism English Style." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature

13 (1964): 28-40.

Links

http://www.fluxeuropa.com/wyndhamlewis-art_and_ideas.htm -- A biography of Lewis' life and Vorticist's ideas.

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?id=1611 -- A gallery of Lewis' art.

Vorticism & the Vorticist

Vorticist Drama

Conclusion & Links