We will convert the King' if possible.
A VORTICIST KING! WHY NOT?
DO YOU THINK LLOYD GEORGE6 HAS THE VORTEX IN HIM?
MAY WE HOPE FOR ART FROM LADY MOND?7
4. Naturalism, a late-nineteenth-century school of and remained the king until 1936. realism, claimed all human life was governed by 6. David Lloyd George (1863?1945), British pol- natural laws. Impressionism emphasized the sub- itician, prime minister 1916?22. jectivity of perspective over any inherent quality in 7. Wife of wealthy industrialist Sir Robert Mond, a represented object. and a prominent member of fashionable London 5. George V ascended the British throne in 1910 society.
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We are against the glorification of 'the People,' as we are against snobbery. It is not necessary to be an outcast bohemian, to be unkempt or poor, any more than it is necessary to be rich or handsome, to be an artist. Art is nothing to do with the coat you wear. A top-hat can well hold the Sixtine. A cheap cap could hide the image of Kephren.8
AUTOMOBILIS M (Marinetteism)9 bores us. We don't want to go about making a hullo-bulloo about motor cars, anymore than about knives and forks, elephants or gas-pipes.
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
Wilde gushed twenty years ago about the beauty of machinery. Gissing,1 in his romantic delight with modern lodging houses was futurist in this sense.
The futurist is a sensational and sentimental mixture of the aesthete of 1890 and the realist of 1870.
The 'Poor' are detestable animals! They are only picturesque and amusing for the sentimentalist or the romantic! The 'Rich' are bores without a single exception, en tant que riches!2
We want those simple and great people found everywhere.
Blast presents an art of Individuals.
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years 1837 to 1900 Curse abysmal inexcusable middie-ciass
(also Aristocracy and Proletariat).
BLAST
pasty shadow cast by gigantic Boehm (imagined at introduction of BOURGEOIS VICTORIAN VISTAS).
8. Ancient Egyptian pharaoh buried in one of the labour, all monotonous, dull labour, all labour that great pyramids at Giza. 'The Sixtine': the Sistine deals with dreadful things, and involves unpleasant Chapel, in the Vatican. conditions, must be done by machinery . . . . At 9. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876?1944), Ital-?present machinery competes against man. Under ian writer and founder of Futurism, glorified war proper conditions machinery will seri'e man. ' and technology and invented a 'drama of objects' 2. Insofar as they are rich (French). in which human actors play no parts. 1. Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901. 1. George Gissing (1837-1903), naturalist This sixth list of items in the 'BLAST' section English novelist. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish comes last, before the 'BLESS' section. writer and critic; in his 1891 essay 'The Soul of Man 2. Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890) sculpted a under Socialism,' he writes: 'All unintellectual colossal marble statue of Queen Victoria.
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BLAS T / 201 3 WRING THE NECK OF all sick inventions born in that progressive white wake.
BLAST their weeping whiskers?hirsute RHETORIC of EUNUCH and STYLIST
SENTIMENTAL HYGIENICS ROUSSEAUISMS (wild Nature cranks) FRATERNIZING WITH MONKEYS DIABOLICS ?raptures and roses
of the erotic bookshelves culminating in PURGATORY OF PUTNEY. CHAOS OF ENOCH ARDENS
laughing Jennys Ladies with Pains good-for-nothing Guineveres.6
SNOBBISH BORROVIAN running after GIPSY KINGS and ESPADAS
bowing the knee to wild Mother Nature, her feminine contours, Unimaginative insult to MAN.
DAMN
all those to-day who have taken on that Rotten Menagerie, and still crack their whips and tumble in Piccadilly Circus, as though London were a provincial town.
3. Hairy. 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712?1778), French philosopher who argued that humans are good and noble in their natural state, before society and civilization corrupt them. 5. A middle-class London suburb. 6. In late-medieval romance, King Arthur's queen in Camelot; also, the title character in two narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). 'Enoch Arden' (1864) is another narrative poem by Tennyson, rejected here for its sentimentalism. Jenny is the title character of another sentimental poem (1870), by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
7. Swords (Spanish). 'Borrovian': from George Henry Borrow (1803?1881), English writer of popular gypsy romances, such as The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain (1843).
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8. 'Circus': here traveling entertainment act with animals and acrobats; also British traffic circle. 'Wonder
