Global Art • 1949 • I
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Global Art • 1949 • I
Artists and intellectuals who had fled the Nazis return to East Germany, attracted to its anti-fascist stance and the possibility of realising their socialist ideals. Within a few years, the migration will be reversed, from East to West.
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.