BLAST!

September 2, 2023 4:08 PM

"Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who was associated with the Vorticist movement in London, certainly died youngest. He was killed at 23, and, except for a few surviving sketches, and several small pieces of sculpture made while he was in the trenches (now lost), the period of his full artistic production actually ended when he left for the Front, in September of 1914, when he was still 22." Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: The Process of Discovery.

Drawing the vortex.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: the young rebel.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska collections.

posted by clavdivs (4 comments total)

This is excellent, thanks for the post.
posted by PussKillian at 5:23 PM on September 2, 2023 [1 favorite]

Vorticism

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No Pasaran!

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Wyndham Lewis: Artist, Novelist, Fascist?


I love this stuff - Futurism, Vorticism etc., but the fash is at its core.
posted by lalochezia at 6:59 PM on September 2, 2023 [2 favorites]

The first linked article begins by citing Pound on Gaudier; another link includes Gaudier sketching Pound.
posted by doctornemo at 8:28 AM on September 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

Such promise cut brutally short.

This is one reason I keep returning to WWI: the sheer, vast, staggering, and obscene waste of human life and potential.
posted by doctornemo at 8:29 AM on September 3, 2023 [5 favorites]