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1929 is the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.

This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. The British high court ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky and adopted a policy of collectivization.

Art and culture

Trends and events

• James Joyce meets Sergei Eisenstein
• The Great Depression
• Cassirer–Heidegger debate

Film

• Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov
• Un chien andalou by Luis Buñuel
• The New Babylon by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
• Melody of the World by Walter Ruttmann

Literature

Non-fiction

• "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" by Walter Benjamin
• First issue of DOCUMENTS
• First issue of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
• "The Big Toe", a text by Georges Bataille accompanied by three photos by Jacques-André Boiffard
• "Les mots et les images", a visual essay by René Magritte
• What Is Metaphysics? by Martin Heidegger
• "Pornography and Obscenity" by D. H. Lawrence
• The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia by Bronisław Malinowski
• An Anthology of Invective and Abuse by Hugh Kingsmill

Fiction

• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Design

• Airliner Number 4, Norman Bel Geddes with Otto Koller

Architecture

• The Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Photography

• Aux Abattoirs de la Villette by Eli Lotar
• "The Big Toe" series by Jacques-André Boiffard

Births

• January 28 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist (d. 2022)
• February 5 - Hal Blaine, American drummer and session musician (d. 2019)
• April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer (d. 2023)
• April 11 - Henri Garcin, Belgian actor (d. 2022)
• April 15 – Richard Rush, American film director (Psych-Out) (d. 2021)
• April 23 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (d. 2020)
• May 13 - Creed Taylor, American record producer (d. 2022)
• October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author (d. 2018)
• November 1 - Jacques Carelman, French painter, illustrator and designer (A Catalogue of Unfindable Objects) (d. 2012)
• November 11 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer (d. 2022)
• Martin Luther King, Jr., African-American activist (d. 1968)
• Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
• Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
• Sergio Leone, Italian film director (d. 1989)
• René Laloux, French film animator (d. 2004)
• José Ramón Larraz, Spanish film director (d. 2013)
• Herschell Gordon Lewis, American filmmaker (d. 2016)
• Régine Zylberberg, Belgian entertainer (d. 2022)
• Frank Gehry, American architect
• Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher

Deaths

• Alfred Richard Allinson, English translator (b. 1852)
• Jacques Rigaut

See also

• 1929 (publication)