Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality
This article looks closely at the life and career of the avant-garde sculptor and painter Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931) as a way to reconsider from a new angle at least three persistent clichés about Vorticism (that it was unmusical, that it was stopped by the First World War, and that its members f...
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| description | This article looks closely at the life and career of the avant-garde sculptor and painter Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931) as a way to reconsider from a new angle at least three persistent clichés about Vorticism (that it was unmusical, that it was stopped by the First World War, and that its members formed a cohesive ‘group’); to establish more firmly an almost entirely unappreciated trajectory within post-war British sculpture, one running from Atkinson’s early interactions with the British Rhythmists to his encounters with Vorticism and beyond; and to re-examine what Matthew Hofer has called the ‘decidedly radical’ early twentieth-century project of non-institutional education focusing on ‘interdisciplinarity through the interaction of the arts’, a project to which Atkinson made a symbolically important contribution. The article suggests that Atkinson deserves a more visible place in histories of avant-garde, inter-disciplinary artistic instruction, and attempts to reclaim Atkinson as a subject worthy of critical scrutiny by showing his importance as a musician and teacher, roles that shaped and benefited from his career as a sculptor in important ways. |
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| spelling | nottingham-288042020-05-04T18:09:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28804/ Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality Waddell, Nathan This article looks closely at the life and career of the avant-garde sculptor and painter Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931) as a way to reconsider from a new angle at least three persistent clichés about Vorticism (that it was unmusical, that it was stopped by the First World War, and that its members formed a cohesive ‘group’); to establish more firmly an almost entirely unappreciated trajectory within post-war British sculpture, one running from Atkinson’s early interactions with the British Rhythmists to his encounters with Vorticism and beyond; and to re-examine what Matthew Hofer has called the ‘decidedly radical’ early twentieth-century project of non-institutional education focusing on ‘interdisciplinarity through the interaction of the arts’, a project to which Atkinson made a symbolically important contribution. The article suggests that Atkinson deserves a more visible place in histories of avant-garde, inter-disciplinary artistic instruction, and attempts to reclaim Atkinson as a subject worthy of critical scrutiny by showing his importance as a musician and teacher, roles that shaped and benefited from his career as a sculptor in important ways. Johns Hopkins University Press 2016-09-30 Article PeerReviewed Waddell, Nathan (2016) Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality. Modernism/modernity, 1 (3). ISSN 1071-6068 (In Press) Lawrence Atkinson sculpture https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/lawrence-atkinson-sculpture-and-vorticist-multimediality |
| spellingShingle | Lawrence Atkinson sculpture Waddell, Nathan Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| title | Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| title_full | Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| title_fullStr | Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| title_short | Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| title_sort | lawrence atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality |
| topic | Lawrence Atkinson sculpture |
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