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Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965 / Lisa Phillips ; with contributions by Maurice Berger ... [et al.].

Title
Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965 / Lisa Phillips ; with contributions by Maurice Berger ... [et al.].
Author
Phillips, Lisa
Publication
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Flammarion, Paris-New York, c1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection wid
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Walker Art Center
  • M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Description
279 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Summary
Chronicles the history, development and major personalities involved in the Beat movement looking at their contributions to literature, poetry, music, film, and art.
Subject
  • Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
  • Ginsberg, Allen
  • Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
  • Rivers, Larry, 1923-2002
  • Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995
  • Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
  • LaVigne, Robert
  • Hopper, Dennis, 1936-
  • Berman, Wallace, 1926-1976
  • Kienholz, Edward, 1927-1994
  • 1900-1999
  • Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Subculture > United States > Influence > Exhibitions
  • Beats (Persons) > Exhibitions
  • Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century
  • Subculture > United States > Influence
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • A duplicate copy of this title was part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, but was not retained.
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nov. 9, 1995-Feb. 4, 1996; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, June 2-Sept. 15, 1996; and M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Oct. 5-Dec. 29, 1996.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [262]-268.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologue / Allen Ginsberg -- Beat culture: America revisioned / Lisa Phillips -- Heretical constellations: notes on California, 1946-61 / Rebecca Solnit -- Libraries full of tears: the Beats and the law / Maurice Berger -- Victors of catastrophe: Beat occlusions / Maria Damon -- Black Beats and Black issues / Mona Lisa Saloy -- Beat goes on / Glenn O'Brien -- Escape velocity: notes on Beat film / Ray Carney -- Movement toward the real: "Pull My Daisy" and the American independent film, 1950-65 / John G. Hanhardt -- No exit: John Cassavetes' "Shadows" / Ray Carney -- Legacy of the Beats / Edward Sanders -- Chronology / Steven Watson.
ISBN
  • 0874270987 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 2080136135 (hardcover : Flammarion)
LCCN
^^^95024764^
OCLC
  • 32921951
  • SCSB-12094157
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library