In the 1930s, two women artists, Maggie Laubscher and Irma Stern, brought a different kind of subjective gaze to South African art by using the techniques and sensibilities of post-impressionism and expressionism. Their bold way with composition, and the assumption of highly personal point of view, rather scandalised those with old-fashioned concepts of acceptable art. Toni Morkel, the 'It Girl' of the avant-garde and Queen of Kisch celebrates the life of Irma Stern in this carefully crafted production.
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