International studio (53.1914)

Amertcan Society of Miniature Painters


PORTRAIT OF PERSIS BLAIR

BY LAURA C. HILLS

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Blast.—A new ism has arrived, Blastism,
which is the latest phase of Vorticism, Imagism,
etc. It makes Futurism a thing of the past; its
claim to permanency is that it is the product of
Presentists, men like Aldington, Brzeska, Pound,
Wadsworth and Lewis. These are some of the

gentlemen who do the blasting. They believe in
no perfectibility but their own, but need the un-
consciousness of humanity—their stupidity, ani-
malism and dreams. Blast is a quarterly publi-
cation, edited by Wyndham Lewis, and sets out to
be an avenue for vivid and violent ideas. If we
must have wars and isms, why not Blast? Or is
it the cataclysm of premature decadence ?

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