page_title: Vorticism
section_title: Participants
hierarchical_section_title: Vorticism / Participants
caption_attribution_description: English: Kate Lechmere, Cuthbert Hamilton (seated), Edward Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis at the Rebel Art Centre, London, 1914.
context_page_description: Vorticism was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century, partly inspired by Cubism. The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of landscape and nudes in favour of a geometric style tending towards abstraction. Ultimately, it was their witnessing of unfolding human disaster in World War I that "drained these artists of their Vorticist zeal". Vorticism was based in London but was international in make-up and ambition.
context_section_description: The eleven signatories of the Vorticist manifesto were:
  Richard Aldington
  Malcolm Arbuthnot
  Lawrence Atkinson
  Jessica Dismorr
  Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
  Cuthbert Hamilton
  Wyndham Lewis
  Ezra Pound
  William Roberts
  Helen Saunders
  Edward Wadsworth
  Other contributors to the development of the movement were David Bomberg, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Jacob Epstein (notably Rock Drill), Frederick Etchells, Christopher Nevinson and Dorothy Shakespear.
caption: Kate Lechmere, Cuthbert Hamilton (seated), Edward Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis at the Rebel Art Centre, March 1914
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