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| "There are certain effects of [[color|colour]] that give all men [[pleasure]], and others which [[jar]], almost like a musical [[discord]]. A more general development of this sensibility would make possible a new [[abstract art]], an art that should deal with colours as music does with sound." --''[[The Sense of Beauty]]'' (1896) | "There are certain effects of [[color|colour]] that give all men [[pleasure]], and others which [[jar]], almost like a musical [[discord]]. A more general development of this sensibility would make possible a new [[abstract art]], an art that should deal with colours as music does with sound." --''[[The Sense of Beauty]]'' (1896) | ||
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| - | "[[Consciousness]] is what makes the [[Mind–body problem|mind-body problem]] really [[Intractability |intractable]]. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of [[Reductionism|reductionist]] euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and [[Concept|mental concept]]s designed to explain the possibility of some variety of [[materialism]], psychophysical identification, or reduction. But the problems dealt with are those common to this type of reduction and other types, and what makes the mind-body problem unique, and unlike the [[water-H2O problem]] or the [[Turing machine]]-IBM machine problem or the lightning-electrical discharge problem or the gene-DNA problem or the oak tree-hydrocarbon problem, is ignored." --"[[What Is it Like to Be a Bat?]]" | ||
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| "That there is a close connexion between a state of [[consciousness]] and the [[brain]] we do not dispute. But there is also a close connexion between a coat and the nail on which it hangs, for, if the nail is pulled out, the coat falls to the ground. Shall we say, then, that the shape of the nail gives us the shape of the coat, or in any way corresponds to it ?" --''[[Matter and Memory]]'' (1896) by Henri Bergson | "That there is a close connexion between a state of [[consciousness]] and the [[brain]] we do not dispute. But there is also a close connexion between a coat and the nail on which it hangs, for, if the nail is pulled out, the coat falls to the ground. Shall we say, then, that the shape of the nail gives us the shape of the coat, or in any way corresponds to it ?" --''[[Matter and Memory]]'' (1896) by Henri Bergson | ||
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"There are certain effects of colour that give all men pleasure, and others which jar, almost like a musical discord. A more general development of this sensibility would make possible a new abstract art, an art that should deal with colours as music does with sound." --The Sense of Beauty (1896) "That there is a close connexion between a state of consciousness and the brain we do not dispute. But there is also a close connexion between a coat and the nail on which it hangs, for, if the nail is pulled out, the coat falls to the ground. Shall we say, then, that the shape of the nail gives us the shape of the coat, or in any way corresponds to it ?" --Matter and Memory (1896) by Henri Bergson |
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1896 (MDCCCXCVI) is the 896th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1890s decade.
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Art and culture
Music
- Also sprach Zarathustra by Strauss
Literature
Fiction
- Aphrodite: mœurs antiques, first novel by French author Pierre Louÿs
- The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
- Le Roi fou, novel by Gustave Kahn
Nonfiction
- Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds published
- Jugend arts magazine founded
Theatre
- Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
Film
- Douche après le bain - Louis Lumière in which actress Louise Willy disrobes
- The Kiss by William Heise
- The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station , short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
Art
- François-Rupert Carabin produces a wooden chair sculpted with the figure of a naked woman bound to its back
Births
- Mario Praz (1896 – 1982)
- André Breton (1896 - 1966)
- André Masson (1896 - 1987)
- Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)
Deaths
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