1924
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Art and culture
- Inversions
- Inversions, the first French gay journal is published. Produced between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with compromising public morality.
- André Breton publishes the Surrealist Manifesto
- Heroin illegal in USA
- Since 1924, when Congress made it illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell heroin, America has been free from heroin as well -- if not in practice, then at least in theory.
Film
- The Inhuman Woman (1924)
- Aelita (1924)
- The Hands of Orlac (1924)
- Ballet mécanique (1924)
- Diagonal Symphony (1924) - Viking Eggeling
Art
- Adam and Eve (1924) Marcel Duchamp and Bronja Perlmutter
- Three years later, immediately after the self-portrait in the Monte Carlo Bond –in Cinésketch, a theatrical diversion of Picabia and René Clair- Duchamp reappears as Adam in a tableau vivant based on a sixteenth-century painting by Cranach, displaying an evidently artificial beard (a significant counterpart to the ambiguous beard of foam), a watch, and a shaved pubis. Certainly not the last 'shaving' in his work.
Literature
- Corydon (1924) André Gide
Births
Deaths
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