Which of the following statements concerning "Vorticism" is false ?
Correct answer: D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.
- A. The term "Vorticism" was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.
- B. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.
- C. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism's principal tenets.
- D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.
Explanation
Vorticism was chiefly a pre-World War I avant-garde movement, associated with Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and the magazine BLAST. It declined rather than grew after the war, so statement D is false.
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