1947
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Goodnight room "Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad do not." --The Age of Anxiety (1947) by W. H. Auden |
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1947 was the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
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Events
- January 15 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
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Art and culture
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Theatre
- The Maids by Jean Genet
- The Breasts of Tiresias by Francis Poulenc, based on a text by Guillaume Apollinaire
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Literature
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Jean-Jacques Pauvert reprints the work of Marquis de Sade
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
- The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank
- Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet
- The Ostenders by Georges Simenon
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Cinema
- Cinema 16, film founded by Amos Vogel, starts its operations in New York
- Fireworks by Kenneth Anger
- Motion Painting No. 1 by Oskar Fischinger
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Music
- The term "Rhythm and Blues" was coined in 1947 by Jerry Wexler as a replacement for the terms "race music" "sepia music" and "Harlem Hits Parade" during a reorganization of the Billboard charts
- Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
- Nature Boy by eden ahbez
- Bloop Bleep by Frank Loesser
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Radio
- November 22 - Recording of To Have Done with the Judgment of God is started
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Theory
- What Is Literature? by Sartre
- From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer
- Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
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Art
- Le surréalisme en 1947
- I was a Rich Man's Plaything[1], a collage by artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
- Mr et M Woodman, Man Ray
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Photography
- Evelyn McHale photo.
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Births
- January 8 - David Bowie (d. 2016), British composer
- April 2 - Camille Paglia, American cultural critic
- May 13 - Diane Noomin, American comics artist (d. 2022)
- Alain Payet (d. 2007)
- Patrick Dewaere (d. 1982)
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Deaths
- Pierre Bonnard (b. 1867), French painter
- Pierre Janet (b. 1859), French psychologist
- Arthur Machen (b. 1863), Welsh writer
- Alfred North Whitehead (b. 1861), English philosopher
- Aleister Crowley (b. 1875), English occultist
- Luigi Russolo (b. 1885), Italian artist
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