9780874270983, 0874270987, 9782080136138, and 2080136135
Description:
279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at the Whitney Museum of American Art"--Title page verso
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-268)
Contents:
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 -- Beat goes on / Glenn O'Brien -- Escape velocity: notes on Beat film / Ray Carney -- Movement toward the real: "Pull My Daisy" and the American independent film, 1950-65 / John G. Hanhardt -- No exit: John Cassavetes' "Shadows" / Ray Carney -- 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