Global Context • 1929
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Context • 1929
The economic boom of the early 1920s grinds to a halt when the US stock market crashes on October 24 (Black Thursday), triggering a worldwide economic collapse (the Great Depression) that will last until the beginning of World War II.
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.