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24 June 2005

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BLAST literary magazine of the Vorticist movement
  • …that Vorticism, considered to be the only significant British artistic movement of the early twentieth century, lasted less than three years?
  • …that cycloramas, a popular 19th century entertainment, were cylindrical paintings of picturesque views designed to provide a viewer, standing in the middle of the cylinder, with a 360° view of the painting?
  • …that Irving Stone, author of the 1961 biographical novel about Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy, learned to carve marble in preparation for his book?