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Events and trends: seven inch vinyl record single launched
Key work of art: Nude with cat (1949) - Balthus
Films: Bitter Rice (1949) - The Blood of the Beasts (1949)
Books: Lautreamont and Sade (1949) - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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The Second Sex (1949) - Simone De Beauvoir [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] [...]
Births: Gil Scott-Heron - Slavoj Žižek - David Toop - Martin Amis - Andy Kaufman - Ken Wilber - Linda Lovelace - Twiggy - Leroy Sibbles - Genesis P-Orridge
Deaths: James Ensor (1860 - 1949) - Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) - E.J. Bellocq (1873-1949)
1949: Charles Olson coined the term postmodern
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