1930
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"I have heard certain travellers, both American and French, assert roundly that African cannibal stories of to-day are cock-and-bull stories — that there is no cannibalism any longer in West Africa. It may interest them to know that in the districts of Man, Douekue and Guglio alone, a central forest section of the Cote d'Ivoire, Afrique Occidentale Franchise, there have been twenty-six formal convictions in the past five years (accompanied in most cases by final complete confessions), of which seven occurred in the year of Our Lord 1929."--Jungle Ways (1930) by William Seabrook "Painting has not always existed; we can determine when it began. And if its development and its moments of greatness can be drummed into our heads, can we not then also imagine its periods of decline and even its end, like any other idea?"-- Challenge to Painting (1930) by Louis Aragon, epigraph in "The End of Painting" (1981) by Douglas Crimp |
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1930 is the 930th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1930s decade.
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Art and culture
- U.S. Customs seized Harvard-bound copies of Candide, Voltaire's satire, claiming obscenity. Two Harvard professors defended the work, and it was later admitted in a different edition.
- The Production Code (1930-1967)
- Crisis of the Novel by Walter Benjamin
Film
- Madam Satan by Cecil B. DeMille
- L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel
- À propos de Nice by Jean Vigo
Photography
- "Papier collant et mouches" by Jacques-André Boiffard
- "The Prayer" by Man Ray
Music
- The Dance of the Cuckoos by Marvin Hatley
- Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt by Friedrich Hollaender
Literature
Non fiction
- Romantic Agony by Mario Praz
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Theatre
- The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau
Births
- Ornette Coleman (1930 - 2015)
- Silvana Mangano (1930 - 1989), Italian actress
- Joe Colombo (1930 - 1971)
- Claude Chabrol (1930 - 2010)
- Jean-Claude Forest (1930 - 1998)
- Antonio Margheriti (1930 - 2002)
- Aslan (1930 - 2014)
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet (1930 - )
- Luce Irigaray (1930 - )
- John Barth (1930 - )
- Erwin C. Dietrich (1930 - )
- Harold Bloom (1930 - 2019)
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - )
- Gérard Genette (1930 - )
- Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
Deaths
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Lon Chaney, Sr. (1883 - 1930)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)