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"The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life."" --On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959) by Guy Debord "A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject".-- Words and Things (1959) by Ernest Gellner

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1959 was the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.

Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Film 1.1.1 Guilty pleasures 1.2 Literature 1.2.1 Non-fiction 1.2.2 Fiction 1.2.3 Theatre 1.2.4 Poetry 1.3 Music 1.3.1 Albums 1.3.2 Singles 1.4 Visual culture 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

• Obscene Publications Act 1959
• Exécution du testament du marquis de Sade, performance by Jean Benoît
• the twist
• The Nervous Set Broadway musical

Film

• Pickpocket by Bresson
• Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais

Guilty pleasures

• Plan 9 from Outer Space by Edward D. Wood, Jr.
• Europa di notte by Alessandro Blasetti
• The Immoral Mr. Teas by Russ Meyer
• I Spit On Your Graves by Michel Gast

Literature

Non-fiction

• Marchand du sel by Marcel Duchamp
• Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
• "The Two Cultures" by C. P. Snow
• Mainstreams of Modern Art by John Canaday
• Words and Things by Ernest Gellner
• The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg
• Mémoires by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn

Fiction

• Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Theatre

• Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco

Poetry

• We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Music

• Island Records founded
• Clement Dodd opens Muzik City

Albums

• The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
• How to Speak Hip by Del Close and John Brent
• Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
• Quiet Village: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny by Martin Denny

Singles

• "Money (That's What I Want)" by Barrett Strong
• "The Peter Gunn Theme" by Henry Mancini
• "Jin-Go-Lo-Ba (Drums of Passion)" by Babatunde Olatunji
• "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
• "Blue Rondo à la Turk" by Dave Brubeck
• "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko Ko Bop" by Little Anthony & The Imperials
• "Shout" by Isley Brothers
• "So What" by Miles Davis
• "My Favorite Things" by Rodgers and Hammerstein
• "The Way I Walk" by Jack Scott

Visual culture

• 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, icon of 1950s excess
• Philippe Halsman's Jump Book

Births

• Kurtis Blow (1959 - )
• Marshall Jefferson (1959 - )
• Hisayasu Sato (1959 - )
• January 2 - Cristina, American singer ("Disco Clone") (d. 2020)

Deaths

• Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
• Alfred Kubin (1877 - 1959)
• Sax Rohmer (1883 - 1959)
• George Antheil (1900 -1959)
• George Grosz (1893 - 1959)
• Boris Vian (1920 - 1959)
• Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959)