1915 art show blasted into the new century by Tate

The 1915 London art show that introduced the influential Vorticist art movement to the world is being recreated at Tate Britain.

The short-lived movement was led by painter Wyndham Lewis and named by US poet Ezra Pound.
The Doré gallery presented its show a year after the movement was launched with the publication of literary journal Blast in 1914. Tate Britain is reuniting as many works exhibited as it can.

Vorticism was founded as an alternative to Cubism and Futurism and set up its home in the Rebel Art Centre in Great Ormond Street.

Tate expert Chris Stephens said bringing the exhibition back to life was tricky as comparatively few Vorticist paintings survive. There are only two by Wyndham Lewis.

There are sculptures by Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, including his head of Pound, who commissioned it with the command: "Make it virile."

Resembling a phallus from one view, it was once owned by writer Ford Madox Ford, who shocked neighbours by putting it in his garden.
Vorticism was notable for promoting women artists such as Helen Saunders, Jessica Dismorr and Dorothy Shakespear.

Mr Stephens said: "They are presented on an equal basis, though all were lovers of Lewis or Pound or both."

The Vorticists: Manifesto For A Modern World, tomorrow until September 4, admission £12.70.