Blast, No. 2
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 of Blast has a beige paper cover with a woodblock print by Wyndam Lewis.
This issue was titled 'The War Number' and it contains 17 illustrations, chiefly woodcut, all black and white, by Wyndham Lewis, Jessie Dismorr, Frederick Etchells, Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Kramer, C.R.W. Nevinson, William Roberts, H. Sanders, Shakespeare, and Edward Wadsworth.
Artwork Details
- Title: Blast, No. 2
- Author: Wyndham Lewis (British (born Canada), Amherst 1882–1957 London)
- Publisher: John Lane , London
- Publisher: John Lane Company, New York
- Publisher: Bell & Cockburn (Toronto, Canada)
- Date: 1915
- Medium: Woodcut and photographic illustrations
- Dimensions: 12 5/16 × 9 3/4 × 11/16 in. (31.2 × 24.7 × 1.7 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Periodicals
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.804.13(2)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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