Blast (British magazine)

This article is about the British literary magazine. For other magazines, see Blast.

Blast
Cover of the first edition of Blast, 1914
EditorWyndham Lewis
CategoriesVorticism
First issue1914
Final issue1915
LanguageEnglish

Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed)[1][2] and featured a bright pink cover, referred to by Ezra Pound as the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus"; and the second a year later on 15 July 1915. Both editions were written primarily by Wyndham Lewis.[3] The magazine is emblematic of the modern art movement in England,[4] and recognised as a seminal text of pre-war 20th-century modernism.[5][6] The magazine originally cost 2/6.

  1. ^ Black (2004), p. 100
  2. ^ see page 1 of Blast or Humphrey Carpenter's A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound, p. 249
  3. ^ Pfannkuchen (2005)
  4. ^ "Vorticism.co.uk". Vorticism.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  5. ^ Jackie Klein, Guardian Online
  6. ^ "University of Delaware Library". Lib.udel.edu. Retrieved 17 August 2009.