Dada • 1919 • I
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Dada • 1919 • I
In Berlin, critic and political activist Carl Einstein and George Grosz team up to edit the 'satirical weekly' Der Blutige Ernst (The Bloody Truth). It appears in six issues (far less than weekly) until February 1920, when it is hounded out of existence by censors.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.