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      <title><![CDATA[BLAST: Review of the Great English Vortex No.&nbsp;1, by Wyndham Lewis (ed.)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/12/florian-hardwig">Florian Hardwig</a><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49294/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/246249.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/blast-radical-vorticist-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tate.org.uk</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Wyndham Lewis and the estate of Mrs G.A. Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust</span>. </span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/typefaces/6101/grotesque-no-9"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/7/6101/400/4/6a12d184/grotesque-no-9.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32182/latin-bold"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/2/1161/440/4/5724ddba/latin-bold.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7251/unidentified-typeface"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/1/591/440/4/570e2042/unidentified-typeface.png"/></a><br/><br/><p><a href="http://gingkopress.com/shop/blast-1/">Gingko Press</a>:</p>

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<p>In December 1913, Ezra Pound wrote to William Carlos Williams calling the London art/literary scene “The Vortex.” Wyndham Lewis in turn appropriated the term to christen his budding movement in the arts, “Vorticism.” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticism">Vorticism</a> was baptized on June 20, 1914 in the first issue of <cite>BLAST</cite>, A Review of the Great English Vortex — Lewis’s revolutionary magazine. […] Described by Lewis as “violent pink,” but by some others as the “puce monster,” the large format magazine displays radical typography and design, features a “Vorticist Manifesto,” and bares eye-popping lists of items to be “Blessed” and “Blasted.”<cite> </cite></p>
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<p>The main typeface used for most of the manifesto part is <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/6101/grotesque-no-9"><strong>Grotesque No. 9</strong></a>. The text typeface is similar to <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7888/de-vinne">De Vinne</a> Condensed <a href="http://archive.org/stream/specimensofpoint00step#page/156/mode/2up">as cast by Stephenson Blake</a>, but it’s not a match. The (wood?) typefaces used for the title and some headings (“MANIFESTO.”, ”ENEMY OF THE STARS.”, not pictured) are yet unidentified, too. Both the framed and the roman numerals are in <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32182/latin-bold">Latin Bold</a>. Furthermore, there are several tertiary typefaces, like Caslon’s <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/45550/atlas-caslon">Atlas</a> (for “THE EGOIST”, not pictured) in the ad section. Printed by <a href="http://books.google.de/books/about/Leveridge_Co_Ltd.html?id=oNC1oAEACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y">Leveridge &amp; Co.</a> (T.U.), St. Thomas’ Road, Harlesden.</p>

<p>In <a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=LuQkDQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA70&amp;lpg=PA70"><cite>Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide</cite></a>, Andrzej Gąsiorek and Nathan Waddell note:</p>

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<p>The words are Lewis’s, but it is probable that some or all of the design was done by William Henry Leveridge, head of Leveridge &amp; Co., who printed both numbers of <cite>BLAST</cite>. The structure <em>BLAST / BLESS</em> is not original, but is taken from Guillaume Apollinaire’s (possibly pastiche) Futurist manifesto <cite>L'Antitradition Futuriste: Manifeste=synthese</cite>, first published in French (dated ‘29 Juin 1913’, p. 3). This uses two antitheses, <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70494p/f2.image.langFR">‘Destruction’</a> against <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70494p/f3.image.langFR">‘Construction’</a> and <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70494p/f4.image.langFR">'Merde Aux’ against ‘Rose Aux’</a>. Destruction is urged upon ‘l’harmonie typographique’ (p. 1), a hint that Lewis may have taken.</p>
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<p>A facsimile edition was published by <a href="http://gingkopress.com/shop/blast-1/">Gingko Press</a>, but is currently out of stock. A pdf edition of both the first issue and the second (and final) one from July 1915 is available from the <a href="http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1158591480633184&amp;view=mjp_object">Modernist Journals Project</a>, a joint project by Brown University and The University of Tulsa.</p><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49297/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/Blast-2-3.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.modjourn.org</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49295/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/blast%2520no%25201%2520review%2520of%2520the%2520great%2520english%2520vortex%2520page%252011.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/blast-radical-vorticist-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tate.org.uk</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Wyndham Lewis and the estate of Mrs G.A. Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust</span>. </span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49296/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/blast_review_of_the_great_english_vortex_p_28.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/blast-radical-vorticist-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tate.org.uk</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Wyndham Lewis and the estate of Mrs G.A. Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust</span>. </span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49300/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/Blast-12-13.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.modjourn.org</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49299/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/Blast-30-31.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.modjourn.org</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/49298/upto-700xauto/69b51bbf/1/jpeg/Blast-60-61.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.modjourn.org</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/16012/blast-review-of-the-great-english-vortex-no-a">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Florian Hardwig</author>
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