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| *''[[Notes from Underground]]'' (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | *''[[Notes from Underground]]'' (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| + | * ''[[Dictionnaire érotique moderne]]'' by [[Alfred Delvau]] | ||
| *The 1864 edition of [[Webster's Dictionary]] published the first definition of [[pornography]] as ""licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in [[Pompeii]]." | *The 1864 edition of [[Webster's Dictionary]] published the first definition of [[pornography]] as ""licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in [[Pompeii]]." | ||
| *[[Gustave Moreau]], [[Oedipus and the Sphinx]]; painting | *[[Gustave Moreau]], [[Oedipus and the Sphinx]]; painting | ||
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This Year, Venuses Again... Always Venuses! (1864) - Honoré Daumier
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Art and culture
- Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Dictionnaire érotique moderne by Alfred Delvau
- The 1864 edition of Webster's Dictionary published the first definition of pornography as ""licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in Pompeii."
- Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting
- Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1864.
- Charles Baudelaire meets Félicien Rops
Births
- January 1 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
- April 21 - Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
- June 11 - Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
- November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
Deaths
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
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