1922
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
“The Hurdanos were unknown, even in Spain, until a road was built for the first time in 1922. Nowhere does man need to wage a more desperate fight against the hostile forces of nature.” --opening title card to Land Without Bread (1933) "I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d’Auseil. These maps have not been modern maps alone, for I know that names change. I have, on the contrary, delved deeply into all the antiquities of the place; and have personally explored every region, of whatever name, which could possibly answer to the street I knew as the Rue d’Auseil. But despite all I have done it remains an humiliating fact that I cannot find the house, the street, or even the locality, where, during the last months of my impoverished life as a student of metaphysics at the university, I heard the music of Erich Zann." --The Music of Erich Zann" (1922) by H. P. Lovecraft "This feeble, lachrymose, gloomy soul has multiplied itself by the glamour and influence of the Confessions, Emile, the Nouvelle Heloise, and the eloquent Discours. It created a whole new literature; and the prestige of this literature still dazes us. Rousseau was the father of morbid Romanticism; Dante the spirit which evoked the luminous Renaissance and the glorious classical centuries. We shall meet again this malady of " self," in different forms, in all the " bad masters " of the nineteenth century. It will inspire the melancholy of Chateaubriand, the vulgar ambition of Balzac's heroes, the misanthropy of Stendhal, the rebellious passion of George Sand, Flaubert's despair, the amorous feebleness of Musset, Baudelaire's dream, Verlaine's moral decadence, and Zola's pessimism. There is in the work of Rousseau the germ of all that is unhealthy in the nineteenth century." --Degeneration In The Great French Masters (1922) |
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1922 (MCMXXII) was the 1922nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 922nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1920s decade.
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Events
Art and culture
Cinema
- Grauman's Egyptian Theatre openened
- Nosferatu by F. W. Murnau
- Häxan by Benjamin Christensen
- Phantom by F. W. Murnau
Radio
- US government allotted the choicest frequencies to operators who promised not to broadcast records
Literature
- Eliot's The Waste Land
- Joyce's Ulysses
- Medusa's Head, an essay by Freud
- Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin by L. and C Brovan
- Les Malheurs des immortels, a collage novel by Max Ernst with text by Paul Éluard
- My Life and Loves by Frank Harris, first volume
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- Les fleurs du mal : les épaves by Charles Baudelaire
- "Mohammed and Charlemagne " by Henri Pirenne
- Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini
- "Herbert West–Reanimator" by Lovecraft
- Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation
- L'Étonnant Voyage d'Hareton Ironcastle by J.-H. Rosny aîné
- Some Remarks on Tobacco by Eric Hiller
Art
- Artistry of the Mentally Ill by Hans Prinzhorn
- The discovery of the unlooted tomb of Tutankhamun
- Ours blanc (Pompon)
- Jeanne Lanvin's bathroom (1920-22) by Armand-Albert Rateau
- Lustmord (Otto Dix)
Theatre
- The Cat and the Canary, a play by John Willard
Births
- November 2 - Roland Villeneuve (d. 2003)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007)
- Eric Losfeld (1922 - 1979)
- Jonas Mekas (1922 - 2019)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922 - 2008)
- Amos Vogel (1922 - 2012)
- Pierre Cardin (1922 - 2020)
- Barney Rosset (1922 - 2012)
- Alain Resnais (1922 - 2014)
- Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975)
- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
- José Bénazéraf (1922 - 2012)
- Russ Meyer (1922 - 2004)
- Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
- Christian Dotremont (1922-1979)
- Lyle Stuart (August 11, 1922 – June 24, 2006)
- Henri Chopin (18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008), French poet and musician.
Deaths
- Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
- November 21 - Iwan Bloch (b. 1872)
- Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 – 1 April 1922)