P A de Waal Venter, Phil du Plessis and Marié Blomerus et al (ed)
Wurm, twelve
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LOT 816
P A de Waal Venter, Phil du Plessis and Marié Blomerus et al (ed)
Wurm, twelve
About this Item
(2) P A de Waal Venter (ed) (1966) Wurm 3, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in Afrikaans and Flemish
(3) P A de Waal Venter (ed) (1966) Wurm 4, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans and Flemish
(4) Marié Blomerus and Phil du Plessis (eds) (c 1967) Wurm 5, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English and Afrikaans
(5) Marié Blomerus and Phil du Plessis (eds) (1967) Wurm 6, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English and Afrikaans
(6) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis and Hugo Neirinckx (eds) (1967) Wurm 7, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans and Flemish
(7) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis and Hugo Neirinckx (eds) (1968) Wurm 8, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans and Flemish
(8) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis, Peter Wilhelm and Hugo Neirinckx (eds) (1968) Wurm 9, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans and Flemish
(9) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis, Peter Wilhelm and Hugo Neirinckx (eds) (1968) Wurm 9, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans and Flemish
(10) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis, Peter Wilhelm and Hugo Neirinckx (eds) (1968) Wurm 10, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans and Flemish
(11) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis, Peter Wilhelm and Hugo Neirinckx (eds) (1969) Wurm 11, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English, Afrikaans, Flemish and Czech
(12) Marié Blomerus, Phil du Plessis and Peter Wilhelm (eds) (1970) Wurm 12, Pretoria: Wurm, softcover, illustrated in black and white, text in English and Afrikaans
Notes
(2) Edition includes unsigned copy of a woodcut by Wilna Breedt.
(3) Signed on cover page by Marié Blomerus.
(4) Signed on cover page by Marié Blomerus and Phil du Plessis.
(5) Edition includes a rubber stamp artwork by Walter Battiss.
(6) Edition includes two unsigned copies (by Wopko Jensma and unknown artist) of graphic prints.
(7) Edition includes graphic work by Walter Battiss (ed 139/200).
(8) Edition includes copy of an illustration by Lila Beukes.
(9) Edition includes copy of an illustration by Lila Beukes.
(11) Accompanied by a personal note from Marié Blomerus.
Incomplete set, Wurm 1 not included.
Published between 1966 - 1970, 12 editions.
'The Pretoria-based magazine, Wurm, appeared shorty after the demise of Sestiger.
Wurm was initially and primarily an Afrikaans-language magazine, but this changed during the five years of its publication. Its first editor was PA de Waal Venter, then editor of the South African police journal and the son of a colonel in the police (Phil du Plessis, p. 33). He had previously published poetry in Sestiger.
Five people began Wurm: Menno Steinvert, De Waal Venter, Dawid Botes, Peter Horn and Phil du Plessis. Three were medical students at Pretoria University and one was a civil servant. Peter Horn was a lecturer in German at UNISA. Many of the magazine's supporters and contributors were also students of medicine. The Wurm group of writers used to meet at the house of De Waal Venter ("Wallie') under the 'protection' of Father Bonaventure Hinwood, whose literary pseudonym was Hewitt Visser. As claimed previously by the writers associated with Sestiger, Phil du Plessis is explicit in retrospect that this group was neither a political nor a literary movement.'
'Many magazines included graphic as well as literary work. The finest instance of graphic work in Wurm is the signed screenprint by Walter Battiss 'Antinöus; in number 8, March 1968.'
Michael Gardiner
Warren Siebrits (2005) South African Literary Magazines 1956 - 1978, Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue
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