Vorticism New Perspectives

by Antliff, Mark; Klein, Scott W.

• ISBN13: 9780199937660
• ISBN10: 0199937664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism--and its English rival Bloomsbury--was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries. Vorticism: New Perspectives is the first volume to attend to the full range of the movement's innovations, providing investigations into every aspect of the Vorticists' artistic production: their avant-garde experiments in print culture, art criticism, theater, poetry, exhibition practice, manifesto writing, literature, sculpture, painting, and photography. The rich and varied essays in this volume constitute a timely and comprehensive reassessment of a key chapter in the history of modernism, and will be of interest to scholars across the full range of the humanities.

Author Biography

Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, is author of several books, including Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde and Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939.

Scott W. Klein is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design.