Blast - ACE049.2

Newsreel and other film from the period of the First World War. Trains, pistons, printing machinery, typesetting. Pages, one with text animated and read out, from the first edition of Blast – A Review of the Great British Vortex (1914). Photographs and film from around 1914, with more text animated and read over. Photograph of Edward Wadsworth, one of those "determined to pioneer an art more appropriate to an age of machines" than Art Nouveau, etc. Photographs of Wyndham Lewis, Wadsworth, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and his bust of Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, David Bomberg, Frederick Etchells, Dorothy Shakespeare, Helen Saunders, Jessica Dismorr, William Roberts. Details of Roberts’s ink and gouache drawing, The Toe Dancer (1914). Six paintings showing the Vorticists’ use of dance as "a harsh, mechanised, strident expression of the twentieth century industrialised world; Gaudier-Brzeska’s Red Stone Dancer (1914).