The BBC will discover modernism in a collection on Radio 3 and Radio 4 to mark 100 years of the motion.
The centenary of modernism can be celebrated with programmes exploring the concepts, achievements and legacy of modernist pioneers.
Matthew Candy will current 1922: The Delivery Of Now on Radio 4, a 10-part collection tracing ten momentous occasions from the Soviet Shabolovka Tower to the event of the primary plane service.
Matthew Candy will current 1922: The Delivery of Now on Radio 4 (Matthew Candy)
Candy, who may also current Free Considering’s Futurism And Manifestos on Radio 3, mentioned: “The writers and artists of 1922 made a strong declare on the concept of the Now. And it nonetheless holds.
“It’s why we’re so deferent in direction of modernism, with its large monolithic texts and pure clear strains.
“It’s why, a century on, we nonetheless consider ourselves as postmodern. We’re nonetheless dazzled by it.
“So this collection goes to place modernism again into its context. And if we’re not so dazzled, maybe we’ll see it extra clearly.”
The publication of Ulysses, James Joyce’s foundational textual content of the modernist motion, marks its one hundredth anniversary in February.
Different highlights on Radio 3 embrace writers Anne Enright Colm Toibin, Mary Costello and Nuala O’Connor exploring the private and cultural influence of Ulysses in The Essay.
This season goes to take us below the pores and skin of what was created in these years and why a lot of it nonetheless resonates now
Matthew Dodd, BBC Radio 3
Additionally on Radio 4, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf can be learn by Sian Thomas.
Matthew Dodd, editor of BBC Radio 3, mentioned: “From Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway by means of to pioneering modernist music and the modern artwork and structure past Europe the cultural influence of modernism can’t be understated.
“We’re delighted that this season will enable us to discover the extreme inventive creativity of the early years of modernism whereas additionally investigating the difficulties of the motion and the way its legacy nonetheless touches our lives right this moment.”
BBC Historical past additionally just lately launched three on-line collections to mark its one hundredth birthday and inform the story of a “century of broadcasting”.
Dan Clarke, commissioning editor for factual at BBC Radio 4, mentioned: “The Twenties was a interval of swirling concepts and ideologies not in contrast to our personal, and 1922 was a 12 months of extraordinary modernist innovation within the arts and past.
“This season goes to take us below the pores and skin of what was created in these years and why a lot of it nonetheless resonates now.”
Radio 4’s 1922: The Delivery Of Now will start on January 24.
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