Vorticism was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century. It was partly inspired by Cubism. The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of landscape and nudes in favour of a geometric style tending towards abstraction. Ultimately, it was their witnessing of unfolding human disaster in World War I that "drained these artists of their Vorticist zeal". Vorticism was based in London but international in make-up and ambition. (Wikipedia)
This i found quite relevant, as the book i am reading, is mainly set in the late 80's, and even though Vorticism was started in the early 20th century, some of the paintings are quite 80's style (no doubt 80's designers were heavily influenced by Vorticism even!)
Some examples...
As there are quite a lot of chops and changes in the story, i'd maybe prefer to stick to one overall theme for the cover, e.g. a common 80's style theme. This is certainly good insipration.
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