Blast, No. 1
Blast was a short-lived literary magazine and manifesto for the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two numbers were published. The first number was published on July 2, 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed) with a bright pink cover. The second number was published on July 15, 1915.
The first number of Blast was edited and largely written by Wyndham Lewis. It includes contributions from Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein, Edward Wadsworth, and Rebecca West as well as an extract from Ford Madox Hueffer's novel 'The Saddest Story'. The first twenty pages contain the Vorticist manifesto, written by Lewis with assistance from Pound and signed by Lewis, Wadsworth, Pound, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Lawrence Atkinson, Jessica Dismorr, and Gaudier-Brzeska.
This number contains one woodblock print by Wadsworth and photographic reproductions of works by Wadsworth (12) Frederick Etchels (3), Epstein (2), Spencer Gore (2), Gaudier-Brzeska (1) and Cuthbert Hamilton(1).
The first number of Blast was edited and largely written by Wyndham Lewis. It includes contributions from Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein, Edward Wadsworth, and Rebecca West as well as an extract from Ford Madox Hueffer's novel 'The Saddest Story'. The first twenty pages contain the Vorticist manifesto, written by Lewis with assistance from Pound and signed by Lewis, Wadsworth, Pound, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Lawrence Atkinson, Jessica Dismorr, and Gaudier-Brzeska.
This number contains one woodblock print by Wadsworth and photographic reproductions of works by Wadsworth (12) Frederick Etchels (3), Epstein (2), Spencer Gore (2), Gaudier-Brzeska (1) and Cuthbert Hamilton(1).
Artwork Details
- Title: Blast, No. 1
- Author: Wyndham Lewis (British (born Canada), Amherst 1882–1957 London)
- Artist: Edward Alexander Wadsworth (British, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire 1889–1949)
- Publisher: John Lane, The Bodley Head
- Publisher: John Lane Company, New York
- Publisher: Bell & Cockburn (Toronto, Canada)
- Printer: Leveridge & Co.
- Date: 1914
- Medium: Letterpress with woodcuts and photographic reproductions
- Dimensions: 12 5/16 × 9 3/4 × 7/8 in. (31.2 × 24.7 × 2.3 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Periodicals
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.804.13(1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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