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