Modernism by Peter Childs

Author:Peter Childs
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Language and Literature, Arts
Published: 2011-05-06T20:00:53.386723+00:00

Everything I have done has been influenced by Flaubert and Cézanne, and this gave me a new feeling about composition. Up to that time composition had consisted of a central idea, to which everything else was an accompaniment and separate but was not an end in itself, and Cézanne conceived the idea that in composition one thing was as important as another thing. Each part is as important as the whole, and that impressed me enormously, and it impressed me so much that I began to write Three Lives under this influence.… I began to play with words then. I was a little obsessed by words of equal value. Picasso was painting my portrait at that time, and he and I used to talk this thing over endlessly.

At this time he had just begun on Cubism. And I felt that the thing I got from Cézanne was not the last composition. You had to recognise that words had lost their value in the Nineteenth Century, particularly towards the end, they had lost much of their variety, and I felt that I could not go on, that I had to recapture the value of the individual word, find out what it meant and act within it.

(Scott 1990:502–4)

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