The Vorticists - Manifesto for a Modern World - Tate Britain 2011
The Vorticists - Manifesto for a Modern World - Tate Britain 14 June – 4 September 2011
The exhibition
Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I. This exhibition celebrates the full electrifying force and vitality of this short-lived but pivotal modernist movement that was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.
The Vorticists forged a distinctive style combining machine-age forms and energetic imagery, embracing modernity and blasting away the staid legacy of the Edwardian past.
Focusing on the only two Vorticist exhibitions mounted during the lifetime, in London and New York, this striking exhibition brings together over 100 key works; including photography and literary ephemera, as well as seminal pieces by Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
This exhibition aims to shine a new light on this revolutionary group of artists, presenting the style, radical aesthetics and thoughts of one of the most truly avant-garde art movements in British history.
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World Lunchtime Lecture with Richard Cork
Friday 22 July 2011, 13.00–14.00
Vorticism was one of the truly avant-garde movements in Britain. Named by American poet Ezra Pound and led by the painter Wyndham Lewis the group embraced the maelstrom of the modern world. Art critic Richard Cork will be expanding on one of the exhibition’s themes: the importance of international exchange in shaping the Vorticists’ concerns and output. Focusing on the sculptural work of Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Cork will be exploring their different cultural backgrounds, challenge to contemporary British sculpture and urge to innovate with a sense of youthful adventure, as well as their personal relationship and influence on each other's work.
An award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster and curator, Richard Cork curated the landmark exhibition Vorticism And Its Allies at the Hayward Gallery in 1974 and first book Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age (1976)was a ground-breaking study of Vorticism, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1977. His book Jacob Epstein was published by Tate in 1999, and four acclaimed volumes of his critical essays on modern art were published by Yale in 2003.
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