Modernism Around The World

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BBC

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Murals which aimed to synthesise the history and culture of Mexico, Japanese novels exploring urban alienation, an exhibition of Bauhaus paintings from Germany which inspired a generation of Indian artists. Presenter Rana Mitter is joined by Jade Munslow Ong, Christopher Harding, Maria Blanco, and Devika Singh.

Amongst the Modernist writers and artists mentioned are: Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro Mexican artist Diego Rivera, and poet Manuel Maples Arce Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, and painter Wifredo Lam Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges Indian writer and artist Rabindranath Tagore, and artist Amrita Sher-Gil South African writers Olive Schreiner, Roy Campbell, Solomon Plaatje, Rolfes Dhlomo Japanese theorist Okakura Kakuzō, and writers Edogawa Ranpo, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Producer: Luke Mulhall

Image: the Indian polymath and modernist Rabindranath Tagore Image credit: Keystone France/Getty Images

Part of the Modernism season running across BBC Radio 3 and 4 with programmes marking the publication in 1922 of Ulysses by James Joyce, a reading of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a Words and Music playlist of readings from key works published in 1922 and a Sunday Feature on Radio 3 looking at the "all in a day" artwork.

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0:35.0	Hello, South African farms, Indian peasants, Mexican revolutionaries, they were all part of the modernist movement of the 1920s, outside the Western world. My guests and I will be talking about the first big moment of global modernism after this word.
0:51.3	Hello, my name's Ian McMillan, and before you slide into the podcast you were expecting,
0:55.8	let me tell you a little bit about my programme The Verbe, Radio 3's Literary Festival, Language
1:00.4	Cafe, and Journey to the Centre of the Sentence.
1:03.4	We'll hear new poems and stories, specially commissioned for the show,
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