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vorticist|ˈvɔːtɪsɪst|
[f. as vorticiform a. + -ist.]
1. An advocate of the theory of vortices.
1866De Morgan in Athenæum 26 May 706/3 Giordano Bruno..was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, an optimist before Leibnitz, a Copernican before Galileo.
2. a. An exponent of vorticism in art.
1914Daily News 7 July 6 My Scot one morning preached me a fiery sermon on the poetry of lawn tennis, and..I became a Vorticist. 1914E. Pound Let. 10 Nov. (1971) 47 While the vorticists are well-represented, the College does not bind itself to a school. 1915[see fauve]. 1930J. W. Mackail Largeness in Lit. 15 Imagists, contortionists, vorticists..have had their little day. 1970English Studies LI. 269 This period [sc. 1910–1922] also saw the birth and death of other more obviously revolutionary groups such as the Vorticists, Imagists and Futurists. 1980Illustr. London News Mar. 58/1 Even the brief and feeble spark of abstraction in England, fanned by the Vorticists and almost immediately snuffed out by the First World War, became the subject of intensive investigation.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1914Blast 20 June 8 We will convert the King if possible. A Vorticist King! Why not? 1914E. Pound in Fortn. Rev. Sept. 461, I shall be..more lucid if I give..the history of the vorticist art with which I am most intimately connected, that is to say, vorticist poetry. 1923Daily Mail 3 Mar. 12 Mr Wadsworth has all the qualifications of a tempera painter. In his vorticist past he was inclined to transform the world and its people into rigid, machine-like shapes. 1962Listener 5 Apr. 599/1 The imagist and vorticist movements of less than fifty years ago. 1966A. L. Coburn Autobiogr. ix. 102 It was in 1914 that Wyndham Lewis..founded the avant-garde movement named by..Ezra Pound ‘Vorticist’, the ideas of which derived partly from Futurism and partly from Cubism. 1981V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell v. 83 Wyndham Lewis..was five years older than Edith herself; his Vorticist period, the editorship of Blast..already lay behind him. |