1928
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"He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours." --"The Call of Cthulhu" (1928) by H. P. Lovecraft |
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1928 (MCMXXVIII) is the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1920s decade.
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Art and culture
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Art
- Objets dans la forêt, a painting by Alberto Savinio
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Literature
- Mickey Mouse created
- Hours Press is founded
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Fiction
- Nadja by Breton
- Story of the Eye by Lord Auch, pseudonym for Georges Bataille
- "The Call of Cthulhu" by Lovecraft
- Lady Chatterley's Lover written by D. H. Lawrence, not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960.
- Irene's Cunt by Louis Aragon
- Therese: The Chronicle of a Woman's Life by Arthur Schnitzler
- Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel
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Non-fiction
- "Twenty rules for writing detective stories" by S. S. Van Dine
- Bilder-Lexikon der Erotik, Vol. 1
- Morphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp
- "Le cinquantenaire de l'hystérie (1878-1928)", a two-page article by Louis Aragon and André Breton on the history of hysteria
- Urformen der Kunst by Karl Blossfeldt
- To the Pure by Morris Ernst, William Seagle
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Film
- The Seashell and the Clergyman by Germaine Dulac
- The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich
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Photography
- La Prochaine chambre, an anonymous photo from the cover La Révolution surréaliste (no. 11), showing to men standing around a manhole.
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Births
- June 14 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
- July 12 - Hayden White, American historian (d. 2018)
- Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
- Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
- Nicolas Roeg, English film director (d. 2018)
- Guy Bourdin, French fashion photographer (d. 1991)
- Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
- Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962)
- Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
- Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
- Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, French psychoanalyst (d. 2006)
- Alvin Toffler, American futurist (d. 2016)
- Oswalt Kolle, German sex educator (d. 2010)
- Francis Haskell, English art historian (d. 2000)
- Jean Rustin, French artist (d. 2013)
- Fats Domino, African-American musician (d. 2017)
- Gerard Damiano, American adult film director (d. 2008)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
- Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982)
- Steven Marcus, American literary critic (d. 2018)
- March 30 - Agnès Varda, French director (d. 2019)
- Luigi Colani, German designer (d. 2019)
- Noam Chomsky, American linguist
- Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
- Ennio Morricone, Italian composer (d. 2020)
- Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973)
- Andrew Sarris, U.S. film critic (d. 2012)
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Deaths
- Franz von Stuck
- Thomas Hardy
- Paul van Ostaijen
- April 15 - Jane Ellen Harrison, British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (b. 1850)
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