Blast from the past: the vorticist moment

Against Elgar – for Joyce! Against cod liver oil – for industry! … 100 years ago the vorticists burst on to the art scene with the most avante-garde shows London has ever experiencedIn the years before the first world war, London saw several explosive exhibitions that shattered the generally conservative – indeed, backward – tenor of much British art. They culminated in June 1915, after the war was well under way, with the only exhibition held by the vorticist artists who gathered