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: ''This article is about the British literary magazine, not to be confused with the San Francisco anarchist magazine, The Blast (magazine).'' ''Blast'' was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed)〔Black (2004), p. 100〕〔see page 1 of ''Blast'' or Humphrey Carpenter's ''A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound,'' p. 249〕 and published with a bright pink cover, referred to by Ezra Pound as the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus"; and the second a year later on 15 July 1915. Both editions were written primarily by Wyndham Lewis. 〔Pfannkuchen (2005)〕 The magazine is emblematic of the modern art movement in England,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vorticism.co.uk )〕 and recognised as a seminal text of pre-war 20th-century modernism.〔Jackie Klein, (Guardian Online )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Delaware Library )〕 The magazine originally cost 2/6. == Background == When the Italian futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti visited London in 1910,〔For a part of this speech, se Wikiquotes, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti〕 as part of a series of well-publicised lectures aimed at galvanizing support across Europe for the new Italian avant-garde, his presentation at the Lyceum Club, in which he addressed his audience as "victims of .... traditionalism and its medieval trappings,"〔Lyon (1999), p. 97〕 electrified the assembled avant-garde. Within two years, an exhibition of futurist art at the Sackville Gallery, London, brought futurism squarely into the popular imagination, and the press began to use the term to refer to any forward-looking trends in modern art. Initially galvanized by Marinetti's verve, Wyndham Lewis—like many other members of the London avant-garde—had become increasingly irritated by the Italian's arrogance.〔 The publication of the English Futurist manifesto ''Vital English Art'', in June 1914 edition of ''The Observer'', co-written by Marinetti and the "last remaining English Futurist" C. R. W. Nevinson, Lewis found his name, among others, had been added as a signatory at the end of the article without permission, in an attempt to assimilate the English avant-garde for Marinetti's own ends. On 12 June, during recitations of this manifesto and a performance by Marinetti of his poem ''The Battle of Adrianople'', with Nevinson accompanying on drums, Lewis, T. E. Hulme, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Edward Wadsworth, and five others roundly interrupted the performance with jeering and shouting.〔Black (2004), p. 100〕 Wyndham Lewis wrote a few days later, "England practically invented this civilisation that Signor Marinetti has come to preach to us about".〔Wyndham Lewis, quoted in Pfannkuchen (2005)〕 The final riposte came with the publication of ''Blast'' (later known as ''Blast 1''), written and illustrated by a group of artists assembled by Lewis from "a determined band of miscellaneous anti-futurists".〔 The name ''Vorticism'' was coined by the poet Ezra Pound, a close friend of Lewis and the group's main publicist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vorticism Online )〕 Writing to James Joyce in April 1914, Pound described the magazine in ambiguous terms: "Lewis is starting a new Futurist, Cubist, Imagiste Quarterly .... I cant tell, it is mostly a painters' magazine with me to do the poems".〔 By July, the magazine had a name, a movement to support, and a typographic style, and it had forged a distinctly English identity, confident enough to praise Kandinsky, question Picasso,〔"These wayward little objects have a splendid air, starting up in pure creation, with their invariable and lofty detachment from any utilitarian end or purpose. But they do not seem to possess the necessary physical stamina to survive, You feel the glue will come unstuck and that you would only have to blow with your mouth to shatter them" Relativism and Picasso's Latest Work, Lewis, quoted in ''Blast 1'', p. 139〕 and openly mock Marinetti. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blast (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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