6/24/2023 0 Comments The waste land 1922![]() ![]() ![]() Spanning several decades, the modernist period gave us the atonal music of Berg and Schoenberg and the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque. If the world is chaotic and unsettling, went the reasoning, then the music, art and writing must be too. ![]() The response of artists and writers was to remake their work: a way of seeking either to control the strange and uncontrollable, or simply to portray it more truthfully. The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf Ulysses: A classic too sexy for censors Even in the years before these cataclysmic events, an increasingly technological society – cars, planes, the first radio broadcasts – felt as revolutionary to those born in the 19th Century as the internet does to those born in the 20th. World War One and the Spanish flu pandemic had each killed tens of millions of people, and the social order in Europe had been overturned. But 100 years ago, people thought the same. In our age of Covid-19 and climate change, it's easy to think that no one has had it tougher than us. ![]()
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