Blast: Abdication of Modernity

Tom Dupre
Tom Dupre
Sep 3, 2018 · 18 min read

Accidental architecture and why neo-China will go the way of Heimatfilm

The 1914 release of the magazine “Blast”, a mouthpiece for various loosely affiliated Modernist and proto-modernist writers and artists in London, is prefaced by a brief, furious statement of intent, largely penned by Wyndham-Lewis, that pulls together wilfully contradictory, alternatingly adolescent and insightful imaginings that helped set and cement the (annoying) trend of artistic “manifestos” that are still pumped out (and still ignored) with depressing regularity.

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