Vorticism and abstract art in the first machine age;2 volumes

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 2 volumes (592 pages) : illustrations (some color) bound in buckram, (as published) Includes indexes., in very good condtiion,CONTENTSL v. 1. Origins and development.--v. 2. Synthesis and decline. v. 1. The first stirrings of revolt : Lewis, Pound, and the Post-Impressionist Exhibition -- The impact of the Futurist and Cubist invasions on the English rebels -- Student unrest at the Slade -- Dissension at the Omega -- The formulation of a rebel group at the October 1913 exhibition -- The Cubist Room and the theories of Hulme -- The Rebel Art Centrer and Gaudier-Brzeska's emergence -- Hulme the critic and champion of Bomberg --Marinetti and Nevinson's role in provoking the arrival of Vorticism -- Blast No. 1 and the Vorticist aesthetic -- Vorticism's progress under the shadow of war. v. 2. Vorticism in practice : Lewis and Wadsworth -- Vorticism in practice : Roberts and Bomberg the Outsider -- Vorticism in practice : Etchells, Hamilton, Atkinson, Dismorr and Saunders -- Vorticism in practice : Gaudier-Brzeska --Vorticism in practice : Epstein and Rock Drill -- Nevinson at war, the New York Vorticist exhibition and Coburn's vortographs -- The Canadian Commissions, Group X and the death of Vorticism..