Sentences with phrase «beatnik era»

Drawing inspiration from her own experience, including the Southern California surf culture of her childhood, the San Francisco beatnik era of her teen years, the punk and new wave music scenes of 1970s and early 80s New York, and her formal training as a sculptor and ceramist, Heilmann incorporates a complex amalgam of personal references, cultural influences, and craft traditions in an artistic practice that includes painting, painted ceramics, and constructed furniture.

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Also worth a look are the eclectic cars by the Klairmont Kollections of Chicago that includes an Adam West - era Batmobile and a custom 1955 Ford «Beatnik Bubbletop» created by Gary Fioto.

Some hail from long - ago eras — protagonists of medieval mythology like the knight, the harlequin, the jester — while others are from the more recent past — beatniks, hippies, and other nonconformists.

Think abstract artists and beatniks in downtown Manhattan, Peggy Guggenheim and her new gallery Art of this Century, cocktail parties on the Upper East Side, Pollock's drip paintings, jazz, beat poetry, dancing the jitterbug and sipping Martinis at the Savoy as we celebrate the era when New York overtook Paris as the capital of the art world.

The book is a beatnik - era exercise in existentialism set against the cultural peculiarities and racial inequities of the Crescent City in the late 1950s.

But the beatnik - era art scene wasn't entirely antagonistic.