From 1914 to 1915, Percy Wyndham Lewis with the help of Ezra Pound founded and published two editions of Blast, a modernist journal that showcased imagism and vorticism. Blast was a short-lived journal that promoted Vorticism, a subgenre of modernism. Vorticism fully captured the modernist movement to reject tradition, with an intention “to make the rich of the community shed their education skin, to destroy politeness, standardization and academic, that is civilized, vision, is the task we have set ourselves.” Vorticism became an artistic movement, and its literary counterpart became imagism. Blast published many imagism pieces, including Pounds’ essay called “Vortex” where he expands on vorticism and the role of poetry and the “primary pigment of poetry,” which is the image.

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Blast, 20 June 1914, https://modjourn.org/issue/bdr430555/.