Local Context • 1925 • II
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Local Context • 1925 • II
Eugène Marais publishes Die Siel van die Mier (The Soul of the Ant). Much of the text is plagiarised by Belgian Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, who published The Life of the White Ant in 1926, falsely claiming many of Marais' revolutionary ideas as his own.
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.