Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Notes on Contributors ; Mark Antliff and Scott W. Klein, Introduction: "Vorticisms" ; Prologue ; Chapter 1: Fredric Jameson, "Wyndham Lewis's Timon: The War of Forms" ; Part I: Vorticism in European Context ; Chapter 2: Rebecca Beasley, "Vortorussophilia" ; Chapter 3: Andrzej G?siorek, "Modern Art in England circa 1914: T. E. Hulme and Wyndham Lewis" ; Chapter 4: Scott W. Klein, "How German Is It: Vorticism, Nationalism, and the Paradox of Aesthetic Self-Definition" ; Part II: Machine Aesthetics, Primitivism, Cultural Politics ; Chapter 5: Jonathan Black, "Constructing a Chinese-Puzzle Universe>": Industry, National Identity, and Edward Wadsworth's Vorticist Woodcuts of West Yorkshire, 1914-1916" ; Chapter 6: Mark Antliff, "Politicizing the New Sculpture" ; Chapter 7: Miranda Hickman, "The Gender of Vorticism: Jessie Dismorr, Helen Saunders, and Vorticist Feminism" ; Part III: Vorticism and America ; Chapter 8: Alan Antliff, "Ezra Pound, Man Ray, and Vorticism in America, 1914-1917" ; Chapter 9: Anne McCauley, "Witch Work, Art Work, and the Spiritual Roots of Abstraction: Ezra Pound, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the Vortographs" ; Chapter 10: Vivien Greene, "John Quinn and Vorticist Painting: The Eye (and Purse) of an American Collector" ; Part IV: Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism and After ; Chapter 11: Paul Edwards, "Blast and the Revolutionary Mood of Wyndham Lewis's Vorticism" ; Chapter 12: Martin Puchner, "World and Stage in Enemy of the Stars" ; Chapter 13: Douglas Mao, "Blasting and Disappearing" ; Bibliography

Vorticism: New Perspectives is groundbreaking. Replete with new understandings of the international phenomenons wide-ranging avant-garde practices and impacts, it will enjoin scholars of Modernism more familiar with the innovations of Cubism, Futurism, or Bloomsbury to give much more credence to Vorticism. Thanks to this volume, we can no longer construe this multifarious movement as a failed revolution.

"The cumulative effect of the material--which adds to previous studies in terms of its cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary range--advances a conception of Vorticism that underscores it, in the words of the editors, as a significant, if problematic version of the 'avant-garde's complex response to modernity' (3). ... Vorticism: New Perspectives indeed discloses reasons and employs rich scholarly bases for engaging Vorticism anew." --Journal of Modern Literature "Vorticism: New Perspectives is groundbreaking. Replete with new understandings of the international phenomenon's wide-ranging avant-garde practices and impacts, it will enjoin scholars of Modernism more familiar with the innovations of Cubism, Futurism, or Bloomsbury to give much more credence to Vorticism. Thanks to this volume, we can no longer construe this multifarious movement as a 'failed revolution.'" --Mark A. Cheetham, University of Toronto "This remarkable volume of essays has reorientated the landscape of studies in Vorticism and modernism. The field must now recognize this moment as profoundly international in its ambition and impact, visually challenging in its formal innovations, and intellectually distinctive. The editors are to be congratulated for assembling a stellar cast of scholars to produce this multi-dimensional, extraordinarily stimulating and inspiring collection." --Tom Normand, University of St. Andrews "This fine volume amply fulfills its subtitle's promise, offering genuinely 'New Perspectives' on the essential but neglected English avant-garde movement of Vorticism. The chapters--by leading experts in modernist literary and visual culture--significantly enrich and enliven current discussions of this fascinating cultural movement; Vorticism's artworks, participants, influences and inspirations, competitors and legacies, and politics are all productively re-illuminated: an indispensable book." --Paul Peppis, University of Oregon

Selling point: Changes how we understand early twentieth century avant-garde culture in Britain, America, and Europe Selling point: First study to put Vorticism in its proper international context Selling point: Bridges a gap between literature and the visual arts by addressing seminal innovations in theatre, literature, and poetry as well as Vorticist painting, sculpture, print making, and photography

Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, is the author of several books, including Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde and Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939. Scott W. Klein is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design.

Selling point: Changes how we understand early twentieth century avant-garde culture in Britain, America, and Europe Selling point: First study to put Vorticism in its proper international context Selling point: Bridges a gap between literature and the visual arts by addressing seminal innovations in theatre, literature, and poetry as well as Vorticist painting, sculpture, print making, and photography