Global Art • 1918 • III
Guillaume Apollinaire publishes Calligrammes, featuring his 'shaped' poems written throughout the war. Apollinaire dies in November of influenza accelerated by a head wound sustained at the front in 1916. Heavily influenced and indebted by his playful dismantling of grammar and syntax, the Dadaists mourn him in Paris and Zürich.
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.