1908
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"In his exhibition of drawings, held October 19, 1908, in the Galerie Devambez, in Paris, he showed the most libidinous set of drawings ever exposed to an invited public, in which there were at least two that were frankly pornographic and for which show he was, by both French and foreign people, called "beast", "monster", "vulgar charlatan", "sadist." etc." --Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great (1925), Frederick Ruckstull |
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1908 was the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade.
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Art and culture
Literature
Fiction
- Hell by Henri Barbusse
- The Way of a Man with a Maid by anonymous
Non-fiction
- Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
- L'Art profane à l'église by Gustave-Joseph Witkowski
Visual art
- Tales at the Dressing Table by Franz von Bayros
- Danae by Gustav Klimt
- The term "cubism" is first used by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles
- Abduction of Europe by Félix Vallotton
- Venus of Willendorf discovered
Film
- Le Film d'Art founded in France
- Émile Cohl began drawing cartoon strips and created a film in 1908 called Fantasmagorie.
Births
- January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (d. 1986)
- February 29 - Balthus, Polish-French painter (d. 2001)
- May 28 - Ian Fleming, author (d. 1964)
- August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)
- September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
- October 27 - Lee Krasner, painter (d. 1984)
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss (d. 2009)
Deaths
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