Blasting the Future: Vorticism and the Avant-Garde in Britain 1910-20 - Hardcover

This book combines new material and recent research to provide and illuminating and coherent overview of Futurism and Vorticism before, during and immediately after the First World War. The time is ripe for a fundamental reassessment of the impact that Futurism had on British culture and of Vorticism, the specifically British avant-garde movement inspired by the founder of the Italian Futurist movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The influence exerted by the Italian Futurists Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Sverini and the mercurial impresario of Futurism, Marinetti, is fully explored. The works illustrated are from a range of prominent public and private collections, and a number have never previously been published. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, which is the first major showing of the movement since 1974 and illustrates works in a wide range of media by the core of artists associated with Vorticism, including England's only Futurist, C.R.W. Nevinson as well as Wyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Frederick Etchells, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer.

This book combines new material and recent research to provide and illuminating and coherent overview of Futurism and Vorticism before, during and immediately after the First World War. The time is ripe for a fundamental reassessment of the impact that Futurism had on British culture and of Vorticism, the specifically British avant-garde movement inspired by the founder of the Italian Futurist movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The influence exerted by the Italian Futurists Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Sverini and the mercurial impresario of Futurism, Marinetti, is fully explored. The works illustrated are from a range of prominent public and private collections, and a number have never previously been published. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, which is the first major showing of the movement since 1974 and illustrates works in a wide range of media by the core of artists associated with Vorticism, including England's only Futurist, C.R.W. Nevinson as well as Wyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Frederick Etchells, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer.