BLAST

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BLAST was the short-lived but influential literary and art magazine that served as the principal mouthpiece of the Vorticist movement in early 20th-century Britain.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Vorticist magazine
art magazine
literary magazine
circulationArea Great Britain
surface form: Britain
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
describedAs short-lived but influential
editor Wyndham Lewis
endTime 1915
genre avant-garde art
modernist literature
hasContributor C.R.W. Nevinson
surface form: C. R. W. Nevinson

Edward Wadsworth
Ezra Pound
Ford Madox Hueffer
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
surface form: Gaudier-Brzeska

Helen Saunders
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Jacob Epstein
Jessica Dismorr
Dame Rebecca West
surface form: Rebecca West

T. S. Eliot
hasPart art criticism
poetry
prose
reproductions of artworks
historicalPeriod early 20th century
inception 1914
influenced 20th-century avant-garde magazines
British modernism
influencedBy Cubism
Futurism
languageOfWorkOrName English
locationOfCreation London
mainTheme Vorticist aesthetics
artistic manifesto
modernist experimentation
movement Vorticism
notableFeature bold typographic design
pink cover of first issue
use of large block capitals
notableWork Vorticism
surface form: Vorticist manifesto
numberOfIssues 2
politicalOrientation radical
publicationDate July 1915
June 1914
publisher John Lane Company
statedPurpose to challenge Victorian artistic conventions
to promote Vorticism
title BLAST: Review of the Great English Vortex

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