Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965

Title
: 
Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965

Author
: 
Phillips, Lisa, 1954-

ISBN
: 
9780874270983
 
9782080136138

Publication Information
: 
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Flammarion, Paris, c1995.

Physical Description
: 
279 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

General Note
: 
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at the Whitney Museum of American Art"--T.p. verso.

Contents
: 
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
: 
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
: 
Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
 
Subculture -- United States -- Influence.

Added Corporate Author
: 
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, N.Y.)

Summary
: 
Chronicles the history, development and major personalities involved in the Beat movement looking at their contributions to literature, poetry, music, film, and art.


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R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)700.1030973 PHINonfiction Collection