Title:
‘The Cult of Ugliness’ opens at the UCT Irma Stern Museum
Published:
University of Cape Town, 6 October 2022
From the news article:
Almost 100 years ago, just after the now-famous South African Modernist artist Irma Stern’s (1894 – 1966) first exhibition in Cape Town, a review in the local press appeared under the headline “Freak Picture Exhibition, the Art of Miss Irma Stern – Ugliness as a Cult”. The article stated in relation to Stern’s work that “where there is deliberate carelessness in form, there is not likely to be much thought … nothing except ugliness”.