The Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and Afrikaner nationalism in the 1930s
Posted onMost creatives like to claim complete originality. In later life Picasso famously denied being influenced by African art when painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907, even though there was ample source material in what was then the Musée du Trocadéro in Paris. So Moerdijk, the architect of the Voortrekker Monument, was not alone in denying […]
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