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1877: Whistler’s suit against John Ruskin for libel
1895: Oscar Wilde trial
First performance of Jarry’s King Ubu
- Date: December 10, 1896
- Location: Paris
The Dreyfus affair
- Dreyfus trial: 1894-1899
- Alfred Dreyfus, Zola’s essay “J’accuse”
First performance of Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World
- Date: 1907
- Location: Dublin
The First and Second Post-impressionist Shows (1910, 1912):
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- Related figures: Roger Fry
The Armory Show
- Date: Feb. 17 to March 15, 1913
- Location: 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave., NYC
- Related figures: Marcel Duchamp (“Nude Descending a Staircase”)
- Related keyterms: cubism, fauvism, impressionism, scandal
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps): ballet
- Date: (premier) May 29, 1913
- Location: Paris
- Related figures: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky (Ballets Russes)
- Keyterms: pagan ritual, primitivism
Premier of Parade (ballet)
- Date: 1917
- Location:
- Related figures: Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Sergei Diaghilev
Translation of Russian literature into English
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- Related figures: Constance Garnett