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Author Phillips, Lisa.

Title Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965 / Lisa Phillips, with contributions by Maurice Berger ... [and others]
Published Paris : Flammarion ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995

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Description 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Contents Director's Foreword / David A. Ross -- Acknowledgments / Lisa Phillips -- 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 -- The Beat Goes On / Glenn O'Brien -- Escape Velocity: Notes on Beat Film / Ray Carney -- A Movement Toward the Real: Pull My Daisy and the American Independent Film, 1950-65 / John G. Hanhardt -- No Exit: John Cassavetes' Shadows / Ray Carney -- The Legacy of the Beats / Edward Sanders -- Chronology / Steven Watson
Summary Chronicles the history, development and major personalities involved in the Beat movement looking at their contributions to literature, poetry, music, film, and art
Notes "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at the Whitney Museum of American Art"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-268)
Subject Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Arts and society -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Beats (Persons) -- Exhibitions.
Bohemianism -- Exhibitions.
Subculture -- United States -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
Subculture -- United States -- Influence.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Berger, Maurice, 1956-
Whitney Museum of American Art.
LC no. 95024764
ISBN 0874270987 (alk. paper)
2080136135