Gaudier Brzeska

£85 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Near fine, very minor mark on rear cover, minor knock to head of spine, text block slightly leaning. ’His death … is, to my mind, the gravest individual loss which the arts have sustained during the war;’ so says Ezra Pound of his former friend, fellow Vorticist, and fallen soldier Gaudier Brzeska. This pocket-sized book was printed in Italy and, alongside reproductions of work from the artist’s brief life, reprints two essays by Pound on Brzeska: one from the 1918 memorial exhibition for the artist, the other from the first issue of the short-lived yet astonishingly influential literary magazine Blast . Such was Brzeska’s importance to Pound’s conception of Vorticism that the tragedy of his death in 1915, aged just 24, knelled something of an end to the movement just as it was beginning.

• Year: 1957

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