vorticistn.

1914 Daily News 7 July 6 My Scot one morning preached me a fiery sermon on the poetry of lawn tennis, and..I became a Vorticist.

1914 E. Pound Let. 10 Nov. (1971) 47 While the vorticists are well-represented, the College does not bind itself to a school.

1915 W. Lewis in Blast July 23/1 May the mortality amongst Cubists, Carnivorists, Fauvists and Vorticists at the front be excessive.

1930 J. W. Mackail Largeness in Lit. 15 Imagists, contortionists, vorticists..have had their little day.

1970 Eng. Stud. 51 269 This period [sc. 1910–1922] also saw the birth and death of other more obviously revolutionary groups such as the Vorticists, Imagists and Futurists.

1980 Illustr. 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.

1914 Blast 20 June 8 We will convert the King if possible. A Vorticist King! Why not?

1914 E. 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.

1923 Daily 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.

1962 Listener 5 Apr. 599/1 The imagist and vorticist movements of less than fifty years ago.

1966 A. 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.

1981 V. 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.