1934
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1934 is the 934th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1930s decade.
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Art and culture
- American censorship: enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code
- June 1 - André Breton delivers the lecture What is Surrealism? in Brussels at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists.
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Music
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Film
- Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl
- The Empress of Floreana by Emery Johnson
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Literature
- L'Afrique fantôme by Michel Leiris
- Une Semaine de bonté by Max Ernst
- The Ethics of Sexual Acts by Rene Guyon
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Negro: An Anthology by Nancy Cunard
- Heliogabalus, or the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud
- The Revolutionary Ideas of the Marquis de Sade by Geoffrey Gorer
- "The Translators of "The Thousand and One Nights"" (1934) by Jorge Luis Borges
- Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
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Visual art
- The Guitar Lesson by Baltus
- Collective Invention (1934) by René Magritte
- The Doll book by Hans Bellmer published
- The 1934 Chrysler Airflow
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Births
- February 12 - Enrique Metinides, Mexican photographer (d . 2022)
- February 18 - Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer (d. 2023)
- March 1 - Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (b. 2005)
- December 28 - Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (Lanark) (d. 2019)
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Deaths
- July 26 – Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (b. 1869)
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