Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir

Ezra Pound supplies anecdotes, letters from the front, an explanation of Vorticism, and 30 illustrations in this memoir of sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. It is actually less about Gaudier than about Pound making the case for vibrancy in art as against superficial "prettiness." Pound can throw a poisonous dart, as when he calls the Tate Gallery a "sink of abomination" that has, by refusing a Vorticist's work, "rushed further into the sloughs of stupidity."