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Modernist Conversations

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Conversations about modernism, a podcast hosted by Chris Townsend and Polly Hember. Get in touch: modernistconversations@gmail.com

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From 'À nous la liberté', directed by René Clair, 1931.

July 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM

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The Circle in the Square, Postcard c.1908, 28 Leicester Square, London - Leicester Square's first cinema.
Source: picturegoing.com?p=165 #film #cinema #modernism #avantgarde #moderniststudies #modernistcinema

July 16, 2024 at 9:45 AM

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From 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans', directed by F. W. Murnau, 1927.
#modernism #silentcinema #film #sunrise #fwmurnau #cinema

July 5, 2024 at 5:07 PM

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Henry Grant, 'Outside a polling station during the 1964 general election', 1964.

July 4, 2024 at 12:59 PM

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'Sunstare Optopoem' by Sidney Hunt, 1933.

#modernism #avantgarde #poem #SidneyHunt #lit #modernistlit

July 3, 2024 at 8:46 AM

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'Dreams' by Chaman Lall, 1919.
#poem #modernism #coterie #chamanlall

July 2, 2024 at 2:25 PM

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'Man … His Universe' by Ronald Moody, 1969.

#art #sculpture #modernism #moderniststudies #lit #ronaldmoody

June 24, 2024 at 8:41 AM

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'Esther Lahr' by William Roberts, 1925.

#modernism #art #avantgarde #moderniststudies #portrait #painting

June 20, 2024 at 10:24 AM

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'The Inner Silence' by Harriet Monroe, 1914.

#modernism #poetry #poem #harrietmonroe #art #literature #avantgarde

The Inner Silence

Noises that strive to tear
Earth's mantle soft of air
And break upon the stillness where it dwells:
The noise of battle and the noise of prayer,
The cooing noise of love that softly tells
Joy's brevity, the brazen noise of laughter—
All these affront me not, nor echo after
Through the long memories.
They may not enter the deep chamber where
Forever silence is.

Silence more soft than spring hides in the ground
Beneath her budding flowers;
Silence more rich than ever was the sound
Of harps through long warm hours,
'Tis like a hidden vastness, even as though
Great suns might there beat out their measures slow
Nor break the hush mightier than they.
There do I dwell eternally,
There where no thought may follow me,
Nor stillest dreams whose pinions plume the way.

June 17, 2024 at 2:32 PM

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'Wedding' by Alice Oswald, 1996. Listen to our latest episode with Beci Carver for a conversation about this poem, swallowtails, ants, love and whimsy 🦋

open.spotify.com/episode/1a5G... #aliceoswald #poetry #research #whimsy #englishliterature

June 6, 2024 at 9:11 AM

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Our episode with the wonderful @becimay.bsky.social is live! Listen to 'Modernism and Whimsy', where we speak to Beci about her new book project, which searches for a type of modernist temperament whose traces were meant to be faint: open.spotify.com/episode/1a5G...