1972
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"Modern architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3:32 p.m. (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt–Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grâce by dynamite."--The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) by Charles Jencks |
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1972 (MCMLXXII) is the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE), the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
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Events
- September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village.
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Art and culture
- Situationist International (founded in 1957) disbands
- Porno chic trend starts
- Deep Throat opens to the raincoat crowd in June, 1972, at the New World Theater on 49th Street.
- Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Italian design exhibition in New York
- Ways of Seeing, BBC television documentary and book by John Berger
- Making Chicken Soup, a photobook by Les Krims
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Literature
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Fiction
- Chimera by John Barth
- The Breast by Philip Roth
- 334 by Thomas M. Disch
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Non-fiction
- Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
- The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
- Homo Necans by Walter Burkert
- Combat in the Erogenous Zone by Ingrid Bengis
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Art
- Seedbed performance piece first performed by Vito Acconci in New York.
- Five Car Stud, a work of installation art by American artist Edward Kienholz.
- Casabella. Radical Design. n° 367, Milano, 1972
- Cactus by Guido Drocco and Franco Mello
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Film
- Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull
- Deliverance by John Boorman
- Last Tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Werner Herzog
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Luis Buñuel
- Fat City by John Huston
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) by Woody Allen
- Boxcar Bertha by Martin Scorsese
- Play It Again, Sam by Herbert Ross
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Guilty pleasures
- Deep Throat by Gerard Damiano
- The Last House on the Left by Wes Craven
- Pink Flamingos by John Waters
- Heat by Paul Morrissey
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Documentary
- Acera, or the Witches' Dance by Jean Painlevé
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Shorts
- La cabina by Antonio Mercero
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Music
- After hour clubs
- "Continental Baths was getting popular around the time I started at Better Days (may/july 1972). Larry Levan was just getting started at that time."--Tee Scott
- Blaxploitation
- 1972 saw the artistic peak of the blaxploitation soundtrack. Several of America's biggest black artists were working on soundtracks simultaneously.
- Glam rock
- Glam rock, androgyny, David Bowie, New York Dolls
- Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
- Rock critic (and future Patti Smith guitarist) Lenny Kaye first defined and named the movement in 1972 as compiler of Nuggets. This legendary double album was perhaps the first collection of older recordings to treat the music as worthy of lasting attention and not just as a quickly fading "oldie but goodie" memory.
- Dub
- In 1972, encouraged by Bunny Lee, King Tubby, an electronics engineer and sound system owner, began to mix records in four-track, and by late 1973 his name graced many b-side ' versions' (the name is a corruption of instrumental version, or 'Version 2') of other people's records, notably those of Bunny Lee and Lee Perry. --Colin Larkin, 1998
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Singles
- Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango
- Shakara by Fela Kuti
- Le Voyageur by Heldon
- The Mexican by Babe Ruth
- People Make the World Go Round by The Stylistics
- Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano
- Pusherman by Curtis Mayfield
- Girl You Need a Change of Mind by Eddie Kendricks
- City, Country, City by War
- New Bell by Manu Dibango
- Why Can't We Live Together by Timmy Thomas
- Work to Do by The Isleys
- I'll Be Around by The Spinners
- Think (About It) by Lyn Collins
- Taj Mahal by Jorge Ben
- ¿Por qué te vas? by Jeanette Dimech
- Troglodyte (Cave Man) by Jimmy Castor
- Goin' To See My Baby by Fatback Band
- Root Down (And Get It) by Jimmy Smith
- Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest
- Clean Race by Scotty
- Everybody's Gotta Live by Arthur Lee
- Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? by Bill Withers
- Waters of March by Antonio Carlos Jobim
- If I Could Only Be Sure by Nolan Porter
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Albums
- Harvest by Neil Young
- Open & Close by Fela Kuti
- Clube da Esquina by Milton Nascimento
- Africa's Blood by Lee "Scratch" Perry
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
- Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones
- Greetings from L.A. by Tim Buckley
- Transformer by Lou Reed
- On the Corner by Miles Davis
- Root Down by Jimmy Smith
- Funky Kingston by Toots & The Maytals
- Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango
- What Color Is Love by Terry Callier
- Fetus (1972)
- Pollution by Franco Battiato
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Compilations
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Television
- The Philosophers' Football Match by Monty Python
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Births
- Theo Parrish (1972 - )
- Alejandro Amenábar (1972 - )
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Deaths
- March 27 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
- Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
- Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972)
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 - 1972)
- Violette Leduc (1907 - 1972)
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