Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short-lived English movement in art and literature that arose in 1914 and was heavily influenced by cubism and futurism.
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- noun A short-lived
modernist movement inBritish art andpoetry of the early 20th century, incorporating elements ofcubism andfuturism .
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Examples
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News at Eleven: Of the seven poets who were the key members of the group, only two are still reasonably famous: DH Lawrence, who was briefly roped in for publicity purposes, and Ezra Pound, who despite having invented the movement soon went on to co-found "vorticism".
Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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So here are stills and posters from Ken Russell's 1972 film adaptation of Ede's book and the sculptor's portrait of poet Ezra Pound, champion of modernism and instigator of vorticism – a movement getting some overdue re-evaluation at Tate Britain in June.
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And I dig your vorticism like I dig your lycanthropy.
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So under all the surrealism, vorticism, futurism, etc., there was still the Chicago guy who had lots of contact with the Chicago streets (between museum-visits, theater - immersions and concerts) and all the between-the-eyes realism therein contained.
April « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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So under all the surrealism, vorticism, futurism, etc., there was still the Chicago guy who had lots of contact with the Chicago streets (between museum-visits, theater - immersions and concerts) and all the between-the-eyes realism therein contained.
hugh fox | icehouse & thirteen keys to talmud « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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And I dig your vorticism like I dig your lycanthropy.
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H.L. Mencken made fun of the newly arrived poet in full flight from the provinces, appareled “in corduroy trousers and a velvet jacket, hammering furiously upon a pine table in a Macdougal street cellar … his discourse full of inane hair-splittings about vers libre, futurism, spectrism, vorticism …” Yet it is astonishing to reflect how long the Village managed to keep on regenerating itself, and helping to regenerate American culture and education.
Last Call, Bohemia Hitchens, Christopher 2008
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She had met the young man with the Albanian costume, and he had talked to her about vorticism and this jolly new Polish composer with his suite for tom-tom and cymbals.
The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918
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