Global Context • 1950
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Context • 1950
After Senator Joseph McCarthy's incendiary speech about communist spies that had infiltrated the US State Department, the 'red scare' in the US leads to several high-profile hearings around the entertainment industry.
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.