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Murals which aimed to synthesise the history and culture of Mexico, Japanese novels exploring urban alienation, an exhibition of Bauhaus paintings from Germany which inspired a generation of Indian artists.\nPresenter Rana Mitter is joined by Jade Munslow Ong, Christopher Harding, Maria Blanco, and Devika Singh.

Amongst the Modernist writers and artists mentioned are:\nChilean poet Vicente Huidobro\nMexican artist Diego Rivera, and poet Manuel Maples Arce\nBrazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral\nCuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, and painter Wifredo Lam\nArgentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges\nIndian writer and artist Rabindranath Tagore, and artist Amrita Sher-Gil\nSouth African writers Olive Schreiner, Roy Campbell, Solomon Plaatje, Rolfes Dhlomo\nJapanese theorist Okakura Kakuz\u014d, and writers Edogawa Ranpo, and Ry\u016bnosuke Akutagawa

Producer: Luke Mulhall

Image: the Indian polymath and modernist Rabindranath Tagore\nImage credit: Keystone France/Getty Images

Part of the Modernism season running across BBC Radio 3 and 4 with programmes marking the publication in 1922 of Ulysses by James Joyce, a reading of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a Words and Music playlist of readings from key works published in 1922 and a Sunday Feature on Radio 3 looking at the "all in a day" artwork.

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