Women Vorticists



TateShots
Video
:
Biddy Peppin on the
female Vorticists


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The Vorticist movement
had two female members, Helen Saunders and Jessica
Dismorr, while Dorothy Shakespear was an unofficial
member. Art Historian Brigid Peppin, a painter and a
relative of Helen Saunders, tours the Tate Britain
Exhibition:


The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World 14 June –
4 September 2011.

Resources on the Female
Vorticists
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below:
  Katy Deepwell – Video
Lecture


Narratives of Women Artists in/out of
Vorticism


Katy
Deepwell

Narratives
of Women Artists in/out of Vorticism


Repositioning Vorticism
:
Part 10: Vorticism Beyond Painting and
Sculpture

Video recordings from the


Tate Britain conference


http://bcove.me/9zu2vhyf





FROM:

Women Artists and Modernism

Edited by Katy Deepwell

Manchester University Press 1998


ISBN-10:
0719050820




Chapter 2, page 36:



Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry

Modern Women modern spaces,


women, metropolitan culture and Vorticism













FROM:

Vorticism: New Perspectives

Hardcover
 






















Lisa Tickner

Men’s Work? Masculinity and Modernism



online
posting


 











Visual culture : images and
interpretations



Modernism,
Magazines, and the British avant-garde:


Reading Rhythm, 1910-1914



by Faith Binckes



Oxford English Monographs, 2010

ISBN-10: 0199252521




Includes
discussion of Jessica Dismorr, Margaret Thompson
Zorach, and J.D. Fergusson, their colleague and
former instructor.


 


“This book is
a re-examination of the fertile years of early
modernism immediately preceding the First World
War. During this period, how, where, and under
whose terms the avant-garde in Britain would be
constructed and consumed were very much to play
for. It is the first study to look in detail at
two little magazines marginalised from many
accounts of this competitive process: Rhythm and
the Blue Review.” – publisher



Digital facsimiles of Rhythm and
Blue Review
are both viewable online at :

The Modernist
Journals Project


 




Catherine Elizabeth Heathcock



Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) :

Artist, Writer, Vorticist



Full
text free online




Biography and list of Dismorr’s
works


University of Birmingham, 1999

386 pages





http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369709







Jessica Dismorr and Catherine Giles



Exhibition Catalogue



The Fine Art Society

London 2000

31 pages









Helen
Saunders, 1885-1963




by Brigid Peppin

Foreword by Richard Cork

Ashmolean Museum, 1996

57 pages

ISBN 10: 185444087X



“Since Saunders’ early work earned her a respected place
in experimental circles, the gathering obscurity of her
later years seems cruel. She endured the neglect with
uncomplaining stoicism, for her innate warmth prevented
her from succumbing to bitterness.”


– Richard Cork in the Foreword

 









Lisa
Tickner



The Spectacle of Women:

Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14



University of
Chicago Press 1988


ISBN-10: 0226802450



Many of the suffragists were artists and the design
of banners,

posters, pamphlets, lapel pins, tea cups and other
merchandise

was an important part of relaying the message of
suffrage.  This

book covers the effectiveness of the visual campaign
employed

by the suffrage movement.




FROM:

differences:

A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

Summer 1992, 4.2: 100-133.




“Militant Discourse, Strange Bedfellows:

Suffragettes and Vorticists before the War.”



by Janet Lyon





Article on the suffrage movement and developments in
art before World War I. Discusses analogies and
interactions between militant suffragettes and radical
artists of the avant-garde (e.g. vorticists,
futurists). 
[Note: compares the language of the
suffragettes to the language of Blast, etc.]

 




Univ of Delaware Press 2009

ISBN-10: 0874130352
Clever Fresno
Girl:


The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach
(1908-1915)




Edited by Efram L. Burk


This volume features thirty
art-related travel articles by the American modern
artist, Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887-1968),
reprinted for the first time since they appeared in
her hometown newspaper, the “Fresno Morning
Republican”, from 1908-15, the period that corresponds
to when she was studying art in Paris at La Palette
and traveling throughout Europe, the Middle East, and
Asia. Her writings relate to the cities, museums, and
cultures in her whirlwind Grand Tour to which she
brought incisive and critical commentary. The
accompanying essay examines her life in Paris, the
people she met, and the art she was exposed to, and
how all of this helped shape her own work and identity
as a woman artist, a world traveler, and an American.
In her travels and activities as an artist, Thompson
pushed the perceived boundaries of gender conventions
and stereotypes during the first decades of the
twentieth century. – Publisher 

 





Marguerite Zorach:

The Early Years, 1908-1920.



Tarbell, Roberta K. & Taylor, Joshua C.

National Collection of Fine Arts

Smithsonian Institution Press

Washington, D.C., 1973


77 pages. 1974 Exhibition Catalogue. 3 color
plates, 42 b&w illustrations.



Marguerite Zorach (a.k.a. Margaret Thompson) studied
with Jessica

Dismorr & traveled with her in Europe on drawing
trips.  More

information on Marguerite Zorach is on the website of
William and

Marguerite Zorach:
http://www.exitfive.com/zorach/marguerite.html







Richard A. Warren at
wordpress.com




includes Images
and texts by and about

Helen
Saunders and Jessica Dismorr




 



https://richardawarren.wordpress.com/helen-saunders-a-little-gallery/



.




VORTICISM
AND ABSTRACT ART


IN THE FIRST MACHINE AGE



Vol. I: Origins and Development

Vol. II: Synthesis and Decline



by Richard Cork




University of California Press, 1976.



“The first complete survey and critical evaluation
of the vorticist movement in England.”



Flashpoint
Magazine: a Journal of the Arts and Politics – Issue
#17