1949
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"[Excess energy] must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically. This is the logic of sacrifice." --The Accursed Share, Georges Bataille "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." --The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir |
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1949 (MCMXLIX) was the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
- Calder Publishing founded
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Music
- The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for the 78 rpm shellac discs.
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Singles
- "Busy Line" by Rose Murphy
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Art
- Nude with cat by Balthus
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Design
- "La Comma", an espresso machine by Gio Ponti for Pavoni
- 1949 Buick, see Streamline Moderne style
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Architecture
- Glass House by Philip Johnson
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Film
- Bitter Rice by Giuseppe De Santis
- Blood of the Beasts by Georges Franju
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Literature
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Fiction
- The Cannibal by John Hawkes
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by Georges Orwell
- The Aleph (short story collection) by Borges
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Non-fiction
- The Accursed Share by Georges Bataille
- The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
- Lautréamont and Sade by Maurice Blanchot
- "The Sign is Not Arbitrary" by Dwight Bolinger
- Love and Death: A Study in Censorship by Gershon Legman
- The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle
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Births
- Gil Scott-Heron, American musician
- Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher
- David Toop, English theorist
- Martin Amis, English writer
- Andy Kaufman, American actor
- Ken Wilber, American philosopher
- Linda Lovelace, American actress
- Twiggy, English model
- Leroy Sibbles, Jamaican musician
- Genesis P-Orridge, English musician
- Richard Hell, American musician
- Luigi Serafini (artist), Italian artist
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Deaths
- January 6 – Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1889)
- January 14 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist (b. 1892)
- January 23 – Erich Klossowski, German-born Polish historian, painter (b. 1875)
- February 11 – Axel Munthe, Swedish psychiatrist (The Story of San Michele) (b. 1857)
- February 16 – Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian artist (b. 1879)
- February 22 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet ("Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking") (b. 1875)
- April 18 – Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist (b. 1887)
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1862)
- May 10 – Tod Robbins, American author ("Spurs") (b. 1888)
- May 15 – Hugh Kingsmill, British writer and journalist (b. 1889)
- May 19 – Paul Schultze-Naumburg, German architect, painter, publicist and politician (b. 1869)
- May 22 - Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, American writer (Gone With the Wind) (b. 1900)
- August 22 – Edmond Jaloux, French novelist, essayist, and critic (b. 1878)
- September 7 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
- September 8 – Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) (b. 1864)
- September 24 – Pierre de Bréville, French composer (b. 1861)
- October 3 – E. J. Bellocq, an American photographer (b. 1873)
- October 4 – Federico Beltrán Masses, Spanish painter (b. 1885)
- October 15 - Jacques Copeau, French actor, producer, director and dramatist (b. 1879)
- October 29 - George Gurdjieff, Soviet spiritual teacher (b. 1866)
- November 3 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American philanthropist (b. 1861)
- November 19 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
- November 22 – Richard Connell, American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (b. 1893)
- December 6 - Lead Belly, African-American blues musician (b. 1888)
- December 15 – Alice Bailey, writer and theosophist (b. 1880)
- December 17 – Robert Eisler, Austrian Jewish polymath (b. 1882)
- December 28 - Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889)
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