Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
Andrew Marr looks at the legacy of modernism with writers Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson, BBC arts editor Will Gompertz and composer Julian Anderson.
On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the legacy of modernism. Kevin Jackson returns to 1922, the year he argues changed the literary world with publications of Joyce's Ulysses and TS Eliot's The Waste Land. And Ali Smith reveals how her writing today melds different forms to explore style, love, death and the art of writing. But Will Gompertz and the composer Julian Anderson argue that art and music respectively embraced modernism earlier and more profoundly than the world of literature.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
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Kevin Jackson
Kevin Jackson is a writer, broadcaster and lecturer.
Constellation of Genius, 1922: Modernism Year One is published by Hutchinson.
Ali Smith
Will Gompertz
Will Gompertz is the BBC Arts Editor.
What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye is published by Viking.
Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson is a composer.
Broadcasts
- Mon 22 Oct 201209:00BBC Radio 4
- Mon 22 Oct 201221:30BBC Radio 4
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