BLAST - Manifesto

"Edited by Wyndham Lewis, its radical intention was immediately evident when it first appeared. It has an extraordinarily bright pink colour with the title BLAST written across the cover in huge, bold, black letters. Ezra Pound described  it as this “great MAGENTA cover’d opusculus”. The first section of the journal starts with a sequence of twenty-odd pages which are presented like a manifesto. Each page has a dramatic piece of graphic design, in which the editors ‘Blast’ and ‘Bless’ different things - often these are the same things. It is sardonic and humorous to read, but has a great vitriolic tone as well."

Source: Tate

Further reading
Vorticism was an iconoclastic British art movement that attacked traditional British culture. It was formed and shaped, at least in part, in response to other art movements.
Wyndham Lewis, a founder member of the Vorticist movement, was previously a member of the commercial decorative arts studios and public showrooms, the Omega Workshops. Lewis argued with Roger Fry, who led Omega, and split from the group taking a number of artists with him. The breakaway group formed the Rebel Art Centre where Vorticism was developed.

Source: British Library