Perkoff, Stuart Z.
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Beat Culture and the New America: 1959-1965 / Ginsberg A ; Berman W ; Herms G ; Perkoff S ; Connor B ; Hedrick W ; Ferlinghetti L ; Jess ; McClure M ; Patchen K ; Norse H ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Corso G ; Joans T ; Dine J ; Rauschenberg R ; Rivers L ; Schneeman C ; Kerouac J., 1996
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Identifier: CC-27244-27740
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The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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1996
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