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Introduction
| Modernism 1900-1950 Did you know?• Dada is a French word for 'hobbyhorse'. In Russian, da means 'yes', and in German, it means 'there'. To the Americans and British, it's also a sound made by babies. • In 1917, Spanish artist Francis Picaba launched 391, a dada magazine in which machines were symbols of life. • Le Corbusier means 'the crow' in French, and was the nickname of the French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris. • From 1920 to 1950, newspaper circulation in the US more than doubled. • The easily portable Leica camera was launched in 1924. • By 1933, there were already about 25,000 jukeboxes in the US. • The illegal pirate station, Radio Caroline, which started broadcasting off the British Isles in 1964, was named after President Kennedy's daughter. • The sleeve of the 1969 Beatles LP Abbey Road shows the group crossing the street outside Abbey Road Studios in north London. Paul McCartney is not wearing any shoes. • At a concert in Budapest on 27 July 1986 in Communist Hungary, Freddie Mercury appeared draped in British and Hungarian flags. But local punk bands were censored and jailed. • In the 1980s, about 80% of the population of Brazil had access to a television set. Find out more about modern culture on the Hello Culture website. |
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