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单词 vorticism
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vorticism


vor·ti·cism

V0148250 (vôr′tĭ-sĭz′əm)n. A short-lived English movement in art and literature that arose in 1914 and was heavily influenced by cubism and futurism.

vorticism

(ˈvɔːtɪˌsɪzəm) n (Art Movements) an art movement in England initiated in 1913 by Wyndham Lewis combining the techniques of cubism with the concern for the problems of the machine age evinced in futurism[C20: referring to the "vortices" of modern life on which the movement was based] ˈvorticist n

Vorticism

an art movement in England in 1914-15 stimulated by Futurism and by the idea that all artistic creation must begin in a state of strong emotion; its products, intended to establish a form characteristic of the industrial age, tend to use angular, machinelike shapes. — Vorticist, n.See also: Art
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vorticism


vorticism

(vôr`tĭsĭzəm), short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurismfuturism,
Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I.
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. Its members sought to simplify forms into machinelike angularity. Its principal exponent was a French sculptor, Gaudier-BrzeskaGaudier-Brzeska, Henri
, 1891–1915, French sculptor. He was the chief exponent of vorticism in sculpture. Mainly self-taught in England and Germany, Gaudier showed exceptional precocity in his draftsmanship, animal figures, and abstract works such as The Dancer.
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. The movement, however, had its largest following in England, where Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot wrote about it.

Bibliography

See W. C. Wees, Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde, 1910–1915 (1972).

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