Hollywood may have been a sclerotic dinosaur, but inspired in equal measure by European cineastes and America's dharma bums, other eager - beaver bohemians were gnawing away at the system — hanging out at pop art gallery shows and
beatnik poetry readings, digging Dylan and the Doors, studying the Method, smoking pot, and finding work at AIP.
Not exact matches
Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Dick Bellamy (1927 - 1998) was a
poetry - loving
beatnik when he arrived in New York in 1950.
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.
Sort of
beatnik... Growing up on the West Coast, we spent a lot of time in San Francisco... in North Beach... Kerouac and all those people were big... In Seattle we used to go to
poetry readings and heard music all the time.