Blast, No. 1
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Blast was a short-lived literary magazine and manifesto for the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two numbers were published. The first number was published on July 2, 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed) with a bright pink cover. The second number was published on July 15, 1915.
The first number of Blast was edited and largely written by Wyndham Lewis. It includes contributions from Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein, Edward Wadsworth, and Rebecca West as well as an extract from Ford Madox Hueffer's novel 'The Saddest Story'. The first twenty pages contain the Vorticist manifesto, written by Lewis with assistance from Pound and signed by Lewis, Wadsworth, Pound, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Lawrence Atkinson, Jessica Dismorr, and Gaudier-Brzeska.
This number contains one woodblock print by Wadsworth and photographic reproductions of works by Wadsworth (12) Frederick Etchels (3), Epstein (2), Spencer Gore (2), Gaudier-Brzeska (1) and Cuthbert Hamilton(1).
