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Art history

the London avant-garde of 1914 around Wyndham Lewis that answered Cubism and Futurism with hard-edged, angular, machine-like abstraction.

In art history, Vorticism refers to the London avant-garde of 1914 around Wyndham Lewis that answered Cubism and Futurism with hard-edged, angular, machine-like abstraction. This meaning comes from Cork (1976) in Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age.[1]

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References

Cork, R. (1976). Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age. Davis & Long. ISBN 9780900406256

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