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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Blasting the Future: Vorticism in Britain 1910 - 1920 Blasting the Future: Vorticism in Britain 1910 - 1920 A timely and fascinating look at the impact of Futurism on the British avant-garde. The works illustrated are from a range of prominent public and private collections, and many of them have rarely been exhibited. Hardback 112 pages 260 x 220 mm 40 colour and 30 mono illustrations ISBN 0 85667 572 5 | Retail price £25.00  Online price: £17.50 / €26.25 The time is ripe for a fundamental reassessment of the impact that Futurism had on British culture and of Vorticism, the specifically British avant-garde movement inspired by the founder of the Italian Futurist movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. This book, which accompanied an exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, combines new material and recent research to provide an illuminating and coherent overview of Vorticism before, during and immediately after the First World War. The exhibition is the first major showing of the movement since 1974 and the accompanying book illustrates works in a wide range of media by England’s only Futurist, C.R.W. Nevinson, and by the core of artists associated with Vorticism: Wyndham Lewis; Edward Wadsworth; Frederick Etchells; William Roberts; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; Jacob Epstein, and Jacob Kramer. The influence exerted on these artists by the Italian Futurists Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and the mercurial impresario of Futurism, Marinetti, is fully explored. The Editor Dr Jonathan Black is author of numerous essays on C.R.W. Nevinson including that published in C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century (1999). He has recently been awarded a PhD in History of Art by London University for research into Nevinson; Eric Kennedy and Charles Sargeant. Contributors include Michael Walsh, author of the most wide-ranging and comprehensive study of Nevinson’s Art, C.R.W.Nevinson: This Cult of Violence (2002), and Jonathan Wood, Research Co-ordinator at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.