Global Context • 1948 • I
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Context • 1948 • I
The Soviet Union stops road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West. In a key event in the Cold War, Western powers begin the Berlin Airlift of necessary supplies to the city, which is surrounded by the Soviet zone of Germany.
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.