• A framed minimalist art print featuring the word 'BLAST' in large black letters on a textured red background, with small text at the bottom reading 'Wyndham Lewis', 'CarterBrooke Gallery', and '8 November-17 December 1992'.
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  • A close-up of bold black lettering on a textured pink background, cropped to show large letters including A, S, and T.
  • A minimalist art poster featuring the word 'BLAST' in large black diagonal letters on a textured reddish-pink background, with a white border and small exhibition text at the bottom.
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Wyndham Lewis 'BLAST' 1914 Magazine Cover Exhibition Poster

Wyndham Lewis 'BLAST' 1914 Magazine Cover Exhibition Poster

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The cover of BLAST no. 1, the 1914 magazine that introduced Vorticism to London: one word in heavy black capitals, driven diagonally across a field of hot pink. Wyndham Lewis edited it and wrote most of it, and it reached readers on 2 July 1914, a few weeks before Britain went to war.

Inside, the type was as loud as the cover. The Vorticist manifesto, written by Lewis with help from Ezra Pound, sorted the world into things to BLAST and things to BLESS. The first target, "from politeness", was England itself, followed by the whole Victorian age ("BLAST years 1837 to 1900"). The blessings went to the great ports and to the hairdresser, who "attacks Mother Nature for a small fee". Italian Futurism was waved away in four words: "AUTOMOBILISM (Marinetteism) bores us." The same issue carried Rebecca West's first published story and the opening chapter of what became Ford Madox Hueffer's The Good Soldier.

Ten years later Pound wrote to Lewis that he had just taken out his copy of the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus". The poster keeps everything Lewis put on that cover, the slant, the chunky letterforms and the worn pink, with one small line of art gallery exhibition type beneath. It reads from across a room, and anyone who knows of it will recognise it at once.

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  • A3 29.7 x 42.0 cm / 11.7 x 16.5 ins
  • A2 42.0 x 59.4 cm / 16.5 x 23.4 ins
  • A1 59.4 x 84.1 cm / 23.4 x 33.1 ins
  • 18 x 24 ins / approx. 45 x 60 cm
  • 24 x 36 ins / approx. 60 x 90 cm

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  • Printed on museum-quality 300 gsm heavyweight paper with archival inks for rich, vibrant colours and exceptional details.
  • All our posters and prints are sold unframed.

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