Vorticism was the only British avant-garde movement to make an original contribution to European Modernism. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis, and christened by Ezra Pound, the movement was a sustained act of aggression against the moribund and moderate Victorianism that Lewis and Pound saw as stifling the artistic energies of the new generation in England.<br/>Vorticism's relatively brief life is successfully captured in this, the first fully-illustrated guide to the movement in English in over 25 years. It includes a chapter by Richard Cork on Vorticist sculpture, other chapters discuss painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism, and Vorticist aesthetics.