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 +'''1917''' was the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade.
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
 +*[[April 10]] - The "[[First Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists|First Annual Exhibition]]" of the [[Society of Independent Artists]] opens at the Grand Central Palace, New York, not showing [[Marcel Duchamp]]'s ''[[Fountain (Duchamp)|Fountain]]''
 +*[[Parade (ballet)|Parade]] (ballet) premieres in Paris
 +*[[Red and Blue Chair]] by Gerrit Rietveld
 +*"[[Mourning and Melancholia]]", an essay by Sigmund Freud on depression.
*[[Defamiliarization]] coined *[[Defamiliarization]] coined
-*[[Readymade]] ''[[Fountain (Duchamp)|Fountain]]'' by [[Marcel Duchamp]]  
*[[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]] *[[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]]
 +*[[God (sculpture)|God]] (sculpture) by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
 +*[[L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes]] by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]
 +*[[Paths of Glory (painting)]]
 +*"[[Cantleman’s Springmate]]" by [[Wyndham Lewis]]
 +==Music==
 +*[[Tico-Tico no Fubá]] by Zequinha de Abreu
 +
== Births == == Births ==
- +*[[Ettore Sottsass]] (1917 - 2007)
 +*[[Robert Warshow]] (1917 - 1955)
 +*[[Leslie Fiedler]] (1917 - 2003)
 +*[[Maya Deren ]](1917 - 1961)
 +*[[Gershon Legman]] (1917 - 1999)
 +*[[Manny Farber]] (1917 - 2008)
 +*[[Anthony Burgess]] (1917 – 1993)
 + 
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
 +*[[Émile Durkheim]] (1858 - 1917)
 +*[[E. B. Tylor]] (1832 - 1917)
 +*[[Octave Mirbeau]] (1848 - 1917)
 +*[[Edgar Degas]] (1834 - 1917)
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