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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.

Presenter 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

Originally broadcast as part of the Modernism season on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and BBC Sounds. There is a collection on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh

And across the Proms season, various interval features are focusing on cultural openings and events from 1922. You can find those available to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts.