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First flight of an aircraft
upside down by the French acrobatic aviator, Adolphe Pégoud.
First “loop the
loop” in an aircraft flown by Russian military pilot Petr Nesterov.
Apollinaire gives a lecture
in Berlin on the occasion of an exhibition of Robert Delaunay at the Der
Sturm gallery.
The text of his lecture
contains one of the earliest references to the radically new mediums of
papier collé and collage that Braque and Picasso had developed using a wide
range of materials, including faux bois wallpapering.
The tomb of an Egyptian
child is found containing nine stone pins, which were probably used in an
ancient variation of bowling.
Mass production is developed
at the Ford Motor plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
Russian celebrations for
300 years of Romanovs.
The First
“International Exhibition of Modern Art” (the “Armory
Show”) in New York at the 69th Regiment Armory includes
Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase, and works by Archipenko, Picasso, Picabia, Braque, and
Kandinsky, to the dismay of the U.S. establishment, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Sonia Delaunay fashions her
first simultaneous dress.
Edison develops the first
talking motion pictures.
Igor Stravinsky’s
ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
Gertrude Stein writes a
word-portrait entitled “Braque.”
We find Picasso, at the
beginning of 1913, returning to the use of paint to hurl, as it were, a
series of defiant challenges at the papiers collés.
Shuffleboard is introduced
into Florida by Daytona Beach hoteliers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ball.
Ferdinand de Saussure dies.
Critic of the Armory Show:
“It was a good show, but don’t do it again.”
Eva and Picasso leave for
Céret.
H.D. Imagiste publishes
three poems in Poetry.
Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, the first readymade
1. Direct treatment of the
‘thing,’ whether subjective or objective.
2. To use absolutely no
word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to
compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. —dicta published by Des
Imagistes in Poetry magazine
Sung Chiao-jen, a founder
of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination
attempt and dies 2 days after.
De Sitter discovers speed
of light is independent of speed of source.
Sagnac discovers speed of
light depends on speed of rotating platform.
Goncharova’s Cyclist
Goncharova’s Rayonism
Blaise Cendrars and Sonia
Delaunay publish “the first simultaneous book,” La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de
France.
Poet Rabindranath Tagore of
India is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Henri Marie La Fontaine, a
socialist, a feminist, a Belgian, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Prizes are included in
Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time.
Picasso does a number of
drawings on the back of sheets of a French Revolution era tax register from
Arles-sur-Tech (near Céret).
Apollinaire publishes a
volume of essays on Cubism and Cubists, titled Les
Peintres cubistes: Méditations esthétiques, Paris, Eugène Figuière. It is a patchwork of
previously published articles, presented in no particular order.
A peace treaty is
signed in London ending the First Balkan War.
Kandinsky’s Light Picture
From Céret, Eva
writes to Gertrude Stein: “The weather is marvelous and we’ve
settled in.” She also sends a postcard to Alice Toklas.
Russian Avant-Garde books
in proliferation, including the collaborative Vzorval
(Explodity) by artist Olga Rozanova and husband poet Alexei Kruchenykh.
Louis Feuillade’s Fantômas film serials
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Max Jacob founds the Société des Amis de Fantômas
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D. W. Griffith completes
his series of Biograph Shorts and leaves the American Mutoscope and
Biograph Co. in New York to make full length motion pictures.
Vivien Leigh is born.
Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire is published.
‘The Judgment’
by Franz Kafka is published.
Richard Nixon is born.
Rosa Parks is born.
Jimmy Hoffa is born.
Harriet Tubman dies.
Albert Camus is born.
deChirico’s Delights of the Poet
Sonia Delaunay writes
“La Poésie Simultanée”
Kupka’s Abstract Compositions
Malevich’s Black Circle
Malevich’s Black Square
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