The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World
Tate Britain 14 June – 4 September 2011
About the exhibition
Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I. This exhibition celebrates the full electrifying force and vitality of this short-lived but pivotal modernist movement that was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.
The Vorticists forged a distinctive style combining machine-age forms and energetic imagery, embracing modernity and blasting away the staid legacy of the Edwardian past.
Focusing on the only two Vorticist exhibitions mounted during the lifetime, in London and New York, this striking exhibition brings together over 100 key works; including photography and literary ephemera, as well as seminal pieces by Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
This exhibition aims to shine a new light on this revolutionary group of artists, presenting the style, radical aesthetics and thoughts of one of the most truly avant-garde art movements in British history.
Events
Talks and discussions
- The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World: Lunchtime Lecture with Richard Cork Friday 22 July 2011
Symposia
- Repositioning Vorticism Friday 17 June – Saturday 18 June 2011
Late at Tate
- Late at Tate Britain: Restless Times
- Late at Tate Britain: Vortex Revisions Friday 2 September 2011 free
