1959
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"The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life." --On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959) by Guy Debord "A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject".-- Words and Things (1959) by Ernest Gellner "She gave a distant nod to the man on whose shoulder she had groaned, sighed and slept". --Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959) by Françoise Sagan |
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1959 was the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Obscene Publications Act 1959
- Exécution du testament du marquis de Sade, performance by Jean Benoît
- the twist
- The Nervous Set Broadway musical
- Debut of the Barbie doll
- July 24 – Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev engage in the Kitchen Debate.
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Film
- Pickpocket by Bresson
- Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais
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Guilty pleasures
- Plan 9 from Outer Space by Edward D. Wood, Jr.
- Europa di notte by Alessandro Blasetti
- The Immoral Mr. Teas by Russ Meyer
- I Spit On Your Graves by Michel Gast
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Shorts
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers
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Literature
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Non-fiction
- Salt Seller: The Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp
- Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
- "The Two Cultures" by C. P. Snow
- Mainstreams of Modern Art by John Canaday
- Words and Things by Ernest Gellner
- The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg
- Mémoires by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn
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Fiction
- Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
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Theatre
- Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
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Poetry
- We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Music
- Island Records founded
- Coxsone Dodd opens Muzik City
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Albums
- The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
- How to Speak Hip by Del Close and John Brent
- Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
- Quiet Village: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny by Martin Denny
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Singles
- "Money (That's What I Want)" by Barrett Strong
- "The Peter Gunn Theme" by Henry Mancini
- "Jin-go-lo-ba " by Babatunde Olatunji
- "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
- "Blue Rondo à la Turk" by Dave Brubeck
- "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko Ko Bop" by Little Anthony & The Imperials
- "Shout" by Isley Brothers
- "So What" by Miles Davis
- "My Favorite Things" by Rodgers and Hammerstein
- "The Way I Walk" by Jack Scott
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Visual culture
- 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, icon of 1950s excess
- Philippe Halsman's Jump Book
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Births
- January 2 - Cristina, American singer ("Disco Clone") (d. 2020)
- January 12 -Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
- August 9 - Kurtis Blow, American musician.
- Marshall Jefferson (1959 - )
- Hisayasu Sato (1959 - )
- December 24 - Mark Dery, American author, lecturer and cultural critic.
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Deaths
- December 14 - Stanley Spencer, English painter. (b. 1891)
- Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
- Alfred Kubin (1877 - 1959)
- Sax Rohmer (1883 - 1959)
- George Antheil (1900 -1959)
- George Grosz (1893 - 1959)
- Boris Vian (1920 - 1959)
- Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959)
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