Talking Modernism
Talking Modernism - a podcast series exploring how our grandparents and great-grandparents changed the world. In each episode we explore a different aspect of modernism, the revolution in thinking from the 1920s and 30s, and what it can teach us about our world today
Episodes
12 episodes
Episode 12 - Streamline moderne, Part 2
" Come tour the future with General Motors! A transcontinental flight over America in 1960! What will we see? What changes will transpire? "Conclusion of a 2-part series on Streamline moderne, In this episode I'll discuss...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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Episode 11 - Streamline moderne, Part 1
“The airplane is the symbol of the new age . A new state of modern conscience. A new plastic vision. A new aesthetic. "Welcome back to the second season of Talking Modernism, and the first of a 2-part series on Stre...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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36:26
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Episode 10 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 3
"I know it when I see it”Final in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition and the Art Deco style. In this episode I explore the origins of the Art Deco style, especially its roots in avant-garde art. Plus the r...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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Episode 9 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 2
"The first impression of the Exhibition is startling. Passing through the silver obelisk-like towers of the Port d’Honneur, one comes at once upon a cubist dream city, or the projection of a possible city in Mars, arisen overnight i...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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Episode 8 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 1
"Paris is the world, the rest of the earth nothing but its suburbs"First in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition, the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne", that sparked a world...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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42:25
Episode 7 - Tel Aviv's White City, Part 2
Second in a 2-part series on Tel Aviv's "White City", the world's largest collection of modernist-style architecture. In this episode I discuss the growth, decline and rediscovery of the White City. I also discuss the contrasting w...
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Episode 6 - Tel Aviv's White City, Part 1
"From the froth of a wave and a cloud I built myself a white city"Second in a 2-part series on Tel Aviv's "White City", the world's largest collection of modernist-style architecture. I discuss how in the 1930s a radical...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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Episode 5 - The Rite of Spring, Part 3
"On or about December 1910 human nature changed. All human relations shifted, and when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature.”Final of a 3-part series ba...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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39:48
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Episode 4 - The Rite of Spring, Part 2
"Now all roads lead to France; And heavy is the treadOf the living; but the dead; Returning lightly dance"Second of a 3-part series based on the book "
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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30:59
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Episode 3 - The Rite of Spring, Part 1
"The most discordant composition ever written. Never has the cult of the wrong note been applied with such industry, zeal, and ferocity"First of a 3-part series based on the book "
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