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PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF EDWARD WADSWORTH
LEWIS, Wyndham (1882-1957, editor)
Blast. Review of the Great English Vortex. Nos. 1 and 2 [all published]. London: John Lane, 1914-1915.
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LEWIS, Wyndham (1882-1957, editor)
Blast. Review of the Great English Vortex. Nos. 1 and 2 [all published]. London: John Lane, 1914-1915.
Edward Wadsworth’s copies of Blast, the important Vorticist journal, to which he was a significant contributor. Wadsworth was one of the first British artists to adopt a machine-orientated type of abstraction and in the First World War was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships in the Royal Navy. He was a close associate of the founder and editor of Blast, Wyndham Lewis, and was a member of his Rebel Art Centre as well as a signatory of the Vorticist manifesto published in the 1914 first issue. His review of Kandinsky's Concerning The Spiritual In Art and a total of 7 illustrations feature across the two issues. Ezra Pound's poem ‘Frates Minores’ appears here uncensored – the first, last and penultimate lines of the poem were usually inked out.
2 vols, large quarto (1914 issue: 310 x 242mm; 1915 issue: 301 x 245mm). Plates by Wyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Jacob Epstein, William Roberts and others (spotting throughout both issues). Original printed wrappers (1914: chipped at edges and spine, upper cover detached, some fading; 1915: covers detached, some creasing, spine chipped). Provenance: Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949; signature on cover of 1915 issue) – by descent to the present owners.
Blast. Review of the Great English Vortex. Nos. 1 and 2 [all published]. London: John Lane, 1914-1915.
Edward Wadsworth’s copies of Blast, the important Vorticist journal, to which he was a significant contributor. Wadsworth was one of the first British artists to adopt a machine-orientated type of abstraction and in the First World War was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships in the Royal Navy. He was a close associate of the founder and editor of Blast, Wyndham Lewis, and was a member of his Rebel Art Centre as well as a signatory of the Vorticist manifesto published in the 1914 first issue. His review of Kandinsky's Concerning The Spiritual In Art and a total of 7 illustrations feature across the two issues. Ezra Pound's poem ‘Frates Minores’ appears here uncensored – the first, last and penultimate lines of the poem were usually inked out.
2 vols, large quarto (1914 issue: 310 x 242mm; 1915 issue: 301 x 245mm). Plates by Wyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Jacob Epstein, William Roberts and others (spotting throughout both issues). Original printed wrappers (1914: chipped at edges and spine, upper cover detached, some fading; 1915: covers detached, some creasing, spine chipped). Provenance: Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949; signature on cover of 1915 issue) – by descent to the present owners.
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