Vorticism and Abstract Art in The First Machine Age (2 Volumes),; Volume 1: Origins and Development, Volume 2: Synthesisand Decline

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976. Hardcover. VG Dustjackets have general wear, bending and discoloration. Bookblocks have some corner darkening and wear.. Brownish cloth. White dust jackets with color illustrations on front. 592 pp. 555 illustrations in color and BW. Color plates tipped in. Important and exhaustive work on the avant-garde movement in England. ISBN 9780520031548 (v1) and 9780520032699 (v2). Contents as follows: v. 1. Origins and development.--v. 2. Synthesis and decline.
v. 1. The first stirrings of revolt : Lewis, Pound, and the Post-Impressionist Exhibition -- The impact of the Futurist and Cubist invasions on the English rebels -- Student unrest at the Slade -- Dissension at the Omega -- The formulation of a rebel group at the October 1913 exhibition -- The Cubist Room and the theories of Hulme -- The Rebel Art Centrer and Gaudier-Brzeska's emergence -- Hulme the critic and champion of Bomberg -- Marinetti and Nevinson's role in provoking the arrival of Vorticism -- Blast No. 1 and the Vorticist aesthetic -- Vorticism's progress under the shadow of war.
v. 2. Vorticism in practice : Lewis and Wadsworth -- Vorticism in practice : Roberts and Bomberg the Outsider -- Vorticism in practice : Etchells, Hamilton, Atkinson, Dismorr and Saunders -- Vorticism in practice : Gaudier-Brzeska -- Vorticism in practice : Epstein and Rock Drill -- Nevinson at war, the New York Vorticist exhibition and Coburn's vortographs -- The Canadian Commissions, Group X and the death of Vorticism.