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-:[[1950]] - [[1951]] - [[1952]] - [[1953]] - [[1954]] - [[1955]] - [[1956]] - [[1957]] - [[1958]] - [[1959]] - [[1960]] +'''1956''' (MCMLVI) is the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the [[2nd millennium]], the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the [[1950s]] decade.
 + 
 +== Art and culture ==
===Literature=== ===Literature===
 +====Fiction====
*''[[The Image (novel)|The Image]]'' by Catherine Robbe-Grillet *''[[The Image (novel)|The Image]]'' by Catherine Robbe-Grillet
*''[[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|The Outsider]]'' by Colin Wilson *''[[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|The Outsider]]'' by Colin Wilson
-*''[[Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale]]'' by Queneau+*''[[Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale]]'' by Raymond Queneau
 +*''[[Howl and Other Poems]]'' by Allen Ginsberg
 +====Non-fiction====
 +*''[[The Nude]]'' by Kenneth Clark
 +*''[[The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster]]'' by Norman Mailer
 +*"[[Mode d'emploi du détournement]]" by Wolman and Debord
 + 
===Visual culture=== ===Visual culture===
*''[[This is Tomorrow]]'' exposition opens in London. *''[[This is Tomorrow]]'' exposition opens in London.
-*''[[Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?]]'' by [[Richard Hamilton]]+*''[[Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?]]'' by Richard Hamilton
*[[Ericofon]] *[[Ericofon]]
 +*''[[Love on the Left Bank ]]'' by Ed van der Elsken
===Music=== ===Music===
-* "[[Heartbreak Hotel]]"+====Singles====
-== Art and culture ==+* [[Heartbreak Hotel]] by Elvis Presley
 +* [[Fever (Little Willie John song)|Fever]] by Little Willie John
 +* [[Love Is Strange]] by Mickey & Sylvia
 +* [[Smokestack Lightning]] by Howlin' Wolf
 +* [[Jeep's Blues]] by Duke Ellington
 +* [[I Put a Spell on You]] by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
 +*[[Can't Hardly Stand It]] by Charlie Feathers
 +====Albums====
 +*[[Chansons “possibles” et “impossibles”]] by Boris Vian
 + 
===Film=== ===Film===
*''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|...And God Created Woman]]'' by Roger Vadim *''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|...And God Created Woman]]'' by Roger Vadim
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* ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' by Don Siegel * ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' by Don Siegel
* ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' by Fred M. Wilcox * ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' by Fred M. Wilcox
 +*''[[The Red Balloon]]'' by Albert Lamorisse
 +
== Births == == Births ==
* [[François Schuiten]], Belgian comics artist * [[François Schuiten]], Belgian comics artist
-#+* [[Masami Akita]]
-Baby Doll (1956) - Elia Kazan+* [[John Lydon]]
-Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of a childlike bride-to-be engaged to a Southern cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between ...+* [[Paul Gilroy]]
-www.jahsonic.com/BabyDoll.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages+* [[Ben Watson]]
-#+* [[Guy Maddin]]
-* [[Masami Akita (1956 - )+* [[Giuseppe Tornatore]]
-Merzbow is the name used by Japanese musician Masami Akita (born 1956) for most of his experimental noise records. He has released an extensive catalog of ...+* [[Doug Wimbish]]
-www.jahsonic.com/MasamiAkita.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages+* [[Judith Butler]]
-#+* [[Lars von Trier]]
-* [[John Lydon (1956 - )+* [[Jacques de Loustal]]
-John Lydon (born January 31, 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten (a nickname coming from the state of his teeth) was the iconoclastic lead singer of the Sex ...+* [[Andy Goldsworthy]], British artist
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-* [[Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)+
-Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. ...+
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-#+
-* [[Paul Gilroy (1956 - )+
-Paul Gilroy was born in the East End of London in 1956 to Guyanese and English parents. He is a black British scholar of Cultural Studies and African ...+
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-#+
-* [[Ben Watson (1956 - )+
-We know you were born in 1956, are British, and were educated at Cambridge. What was your degree in? What were your musical interests as a youth? ...+
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-1956+
-This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the ...+
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-L'Image/The Image (1956 novel)+
-Original French publication by Les Editions de Minuit 1956. According to John de St Jorre in his book Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press ...+
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-#+
-The Outsider (1956) - Colin Wilson+
-The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Henry Wilson first published in 1956. Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells ...+
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-#+
-Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 (1994 ...+
-Immoral Tales: Sex And Horror Cinema In Europe 1956-1984 (1994) - Cathal Tohill .... Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horro Movies 1956-1984 by Cathal Tohill ...+
-www.jahsonic.com/ImmoralTales1994.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages+
-#+
-* [[Bela Lugosi (1882 - 1956)+
-Blaskó (October 20, 1882–August 16, 1956). He was born in Lugos, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a ...+
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-* [[Guy Maddin (1956 - )+
-Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Winnipeg writer and director of both features and short films. His most distinctive quality is his fondness for ...+
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-* [[Giuseppe Tornatore (1956 - )+
-Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily) is an Italian film director. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Tornatore [Dec 2005] ...+
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-* [[Doug Wimbish (1956 - )+
-Doug Wimbish (born September 22, 1956) is a bass guitar player, primarily known for his studio work for the rap/hip hop label Sugarhill Records and his ...+
-www.jahsonic.com/DougWimbish.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pages+
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-* [[Judith Butler (1956 - )+
-1956) is a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and a feminist academic who wrote Gender Trouble in 1990 and Bodies That ...+
-www.jahsonic.com/JudithButler.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pages+
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-* [[Lars von Trier (1956 - )+
-Lars von Trier (born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective calling for a return to ...+
-www.jahsonic.com/LarsVonTrier.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages+
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-* [[Josef Hoffmann (1870 -1956)+
-Josef Hoffmann (December 15, 1870 Brtnice—May 7, 1956 Vienna) was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. He studied with Otto Wagner. ...+
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-* [[Jacques de Loustal (1956 - )+
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
 +* [[Josef Hoffmann]] (1870 -1956)
 +* [[Bela Lugosi]] (1882 - 1956)
 +* [[Bertolt Brecht]] (1898 - 1956)
 +
 +==See also ==
 +* [[1956 in film]]
 +* [[1956 in literature]]
 +* [[1956 in music]]
 +* [[1956 in philosophy]]
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