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Global Art • 1937
Shared by Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk Date shared 4 August 2022 Projects Source Publication

Global Art • 1937
The Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition is mounted by the Nazis in Munich and travels to dozens of other venues around Germany and Austria. The works of the Dadaists are high-ranking among the accused. A follow-up exhibition, Degenerate Music, held in 1938, aims to educate the listening public on the dangers of atonalism and jazz.

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.

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