1936
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Art and culture
- Biomorphism coined
- Cubism and Abstract Art, a 1936 exhibition curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
- Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition opens in New York
- Fourteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association
- Cinémathèque française founded
- Butler House by George Kraetsch and E.E. Butler Des Moines, Iowa
- "Execution" of the Sacred Heart by leftist militiamen at Cerro de los Ángeles near Madrid, on 7 August 1936
Art
- The City of Drawers - Study for the "Anthropomorphic Cabinet" by Dali
- Lobster Telephone by Dali
- Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Oppenheim
- Monsters & Madonnas by William Mortensen
Photography
Film
- Rose Hobart by Cornell
- Reefer Madness by Louis J. Gasnier
- Things to Come by William Cameron Menzies
- Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin
Music
- La Conga Blicoti by Josephine Baker
- Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) by Louis Prima
Literature
- New Directions Publishers founded.
Fiction
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
- Death on Credit by Céline
- Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov published as a novel
- Mephisto by Klaus Mann
Non-fiction
- Beyond the 'Reality Principle' by Lacan
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
- Imagination: A Psychological Critique by Sartre
- First issue of Acéphale
- Bagatelles pour un massacre by Céline
Births
- Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936 - )
- Sylvia Robinson (1936 - 2011)
- Bruce Dern (1936 - )
- Ursula Andress (1936 - )
- Joe D'Amato (1936 - 1999)
- Philip Kaufman (1936 - )
- Koji Wakamatsu (1936 - 2012)
- Georges Perec (1936 - 1982)
- Lasse Braun (1936 - )
- Yves Saint Laurent (1936 - 2008)
- Jan Hoet (1936 - 2014)
Deaths
- Luigi Pirandello (1867 - 1936)
- Oswald Spengler (1880 – 1936)
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