Vortex (From the Trenches)

Vortex (From the Trenches)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

July, 1915

University of Victoria Libraries- Special Collections

University of Victoria Libraries- Special Collections

London Group.
Arts--Great Britain.
English literature--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war.
World War, 1914-1918--Literary collections.
Vorticism.
Art, British--20th century.
Arts, British--20th century.

First page of Gaudier-Brzeska's Vortex (Written from the Trenches. The piece is a Vorticist manifesto praising the war as "a great remedy." A death notice on the second page, titled "Mort Pour La Patrie" or "Death for the Fatherland," informs the public that Gaudier-Brzeska died in the trenches on June 5, 1915, just a month before the magazine was published.

University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections PR6023 E97Z6129 no. 2

John Lane, The Bodley Head

TJBF

Magazine- 23cm x 30cm

English

Text

November 14, 2017

University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections PR6023 E97Z6129 no. 2

Lewis, Wyndham, editor. Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex. No. 2, London, John Lane, 1915. UVic Special Collections Call number PR6023 E97Z6129 No. 2