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Aurora

Item date(s): December 1948 - September 1949

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (edited by)


Pages: 28pp
Size: 290mm
Binding: Stapled
Technique: Roneo printed
Language: English; Afrikaans

Sub-type: Periodical

Place publication: Pretoria
Publisher: The South African Association of Arts
Number 1 to 5

Additional notes:
Assembled by hand: No 2&3: One screenprint, an original drawing by Cecil Podlashuc, several photographs pasted in.

Including the annotated Confidential Editor's Critical Copy for the Secretary with a Substitute front page. Signed W.B. 18/3/49.

Quotation from "First Chairman Reports on First Meeting" from South African Association of Arts N. Transvaal 1947-1972. Arts Calendar February 1972:

"For producing Aurora there was all the roneo work to be done, the collating of pages, the binding and the posting and I recall that Miss [B.J.] Versfeld did all these thankless jobs with courage and enthusiasm. When there was no more money in the kitty she told me to stop publication. Quire right."

Five volumes bound together, including the rare first number which was roneod.



Ref: GB/30180

Articles

Differences of Opinion
 Anton Hendriks
 Walter Whall Battiss
   No 5, p12

The Artists of the Rocks"
 R. R. Holloway (review by)
   No3, p10-11







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