Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965
Title
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Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965
Author
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Phillips, Lisa, 1954-
ISBN
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9780874270983
9782080136138
Publication Information
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New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Flammarion, Paris, c1995.
Physical Description
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279 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
General Note
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"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at the Whitney Museum of American Art"--T.p. verso.
Contents
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Prologue / Allen Ginsberg -- Beat culture: America revisioned / Heretical constellations: notes on California, 1946-61 / Libraries full of tears: the Beats and the law / Victors of catastrophe: Beat occlusions / Black Beats and Black issues / Beat goes on / Escape velocity: notes on Beat film / Movement toward the real: "Pull My Daisy" and the American independent film, 1950-65 / No exit: John Cassavetes' "Shadows" / Legacy of the Beats / Chronology
Personal Subject
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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002.
Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995
Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
LaVigne, Robert, 1928-2014
Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010.
Berman, Wallace, 1926-1976
Kienholz, Edward, 1927-1994
Subject Term
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Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subculture -- United States -- Influence.
Added Corporate Author
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Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, N.Y.)
Summary
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Chronicles the history, development and major personalities involved in the Beat movement looking at their contributions to literature, poetry, music, film, and art.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 700.1030973 PHI | Nonfiction Collection |