Episode 38: Wassily Kandinsky's Untitled (1922)
“Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”
Images Referenced:
Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
Thelonious Monk, “Misterioso”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Highway 94”, “Boston Landing”, “Junca”, “Unfolding Plot”, “Micro”, “Betty Dear”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Additional Links:
Hear a portion of this episode on WBUR’s Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Listen to Tamar’s interview with Dan Byers, the Director of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, about Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo.
Tamar Avishai