If you look up “Vorticism” in handbooks of art, you will likely find prominent mention of two things: it was the first attempt on British soil to launch an avant-garde art movement, and it was ...

Jacob Epstein's The Rock Drill appears twice in the new exhibition The Vorticists at London's Tate Britain. The first time it's a Faustian dream of technological power and transformation, the second ...

On the eve of World War I, a band of iconoclastic, London-based artists announced the debut of Vorticism, a movement that rejected “sentimental” Victorian aesthetics in favor of bold abstraction ...

Tate Britain’s Vorticism exhibition revisits one of English art’s most radical and yet mysterious movements. By Juliet Jacques Tate Britain’s Vorticism exhibition revisits one of English art’s most ...

Next weekend sees the opening of the first exhibition in 40 years of the work of the artist William Roberts, but without a number of key items, which are locked up in the care of the treasury ...

Notes Published on the occasion of the exhibition Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920 held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 4 Feb - 18 Apr 2004 and the ...

When it comes to the early history of modern art, London was lamentably behind. In 1910, when Europe was a hotbed of competing '-isms’ that would set the agenda for the most dynamic century in the ...