Sarma Melngailis: Comptrollers, Barbitones, Cosmo, and Indentured Trigrams

Sarma Melngailis is a writer, critic and art historian who's also worked as a curator. She discusses her book 'Comptrollers: Barbitones of the 1920s' and how it relates to the essay 'Trigrams and Phylacteries' by R.U. Sirius. LEXMAN ASKS: What intrigues you about the 1920s? SAMARA MELNGAILIS RESPONDS: Firstly, I think it's an interesting decade in terms of aesthetics - there's a definite movement away from classicism and towards modernism in art, music and writing. And I