BK. Ezra Pound

11. ‘Edward Wadsworth, Vorticist’. Egoist 1 (August 1914): 306-07.

	Edward Wadsworth, Vorticist	‘I trust the gentle reader is accustomed to take pleasure in “Whistler and the Japanese.”’ Image: .

In his defence of Vorticism and the Vorticist painter Wadsworth, Pound defines Vorticism in part as a reliance on ‘arrangement of space and line’, and cites Whistler and Japanese art as important antecedents: ‘I trust the gentle reader is accustomed to take pleasure in “Whistler and the Japanese”. Otherwise he had better stop reading my article until he has treated himself to some further draughts of education. From Whistler and the Japanese . . . the “world,” that is to say, the fragment of the English-speaking world that spreads itself into print, learned to enjoy “arrangements” of colours and masses.’ See also 12.