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Vorticism - Abstraction and Empathy

Review, first published in the online Dublin Review of Books Spring 2014, of Mark Antliff and Scott W.Klein (ed): Vorticism: New Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2013.


'English Cubism' and Italian Futurism
What is a vortex?
T.E.Hulme - for and against Henri Bergson
T.E.Hulme and Wilhelm Worringer
T.E.Hulme and Wyndham Lewis
Du "Cubisme" - the straight line and the curve
Wyndham Lewis and Edward Wadsworth - space v time
Edward Wadsworth's Enclosure
Hulme and the opening of a new religious age

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