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)