How to Create a Modernist Masterpiece
Laurence Scott asks four experts to outline key elements of early modernism found in jazz, books, art and architecture.
A "house on chicken legsβ in Moscow designed by Viktor Andreyev, Virginia Woolfβs novel Jacobβs Room first published on 26 October 1922, Coal Cart Blues sung by Louis Armstrong drawing on his own experiences of pulling one round the streets of New Orleans where he started his teenage years living in a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ for Waifs; Duchampβs 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 are picked out as novelist Will Self, art historian and literary critic Alexandra Harris, jazz and music expert Kevin Le Gendre and architecture writer Owen Hatherley try to nail down the elements that make something modernist; looking at the importance of rhythm, the depiction of everyday life and new inventions, psychology and how you describe the self and utopian ideas about communal living. The presenter is New Generation Thinker and essayist Laurence Scott.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Image: Will Self in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Broadcasting House, London
Part of the modernism season running across ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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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