The title of the exhibition, Euphoria Now, refers to a stroboscopic device called Dreamachine (or dream machine)
by Beatnik - artists Brion Gysin und Ian Sommerville.
It was embraced
by the beatnik generation for whom glitzy jewelry held no appeal.
Not exact matches
Its first local stop is a cynical
beatnik pad, where dropped - out longhairs (led
by the miscast George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore) eternally scowl about the hopelessness of metropolitan life.
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.
It was followed
by the Custom Barracuda, Deora, Custom T - Bird, Custom Firebird, Silhouette, Ford J. Car, Custom Volkswagen, Hot Heap,
Beatnik Bandit, Custom Eldorado, Cheetah, Custom Fleetside, Custom Corvette, Custom Cougar, and Custom Mustang.
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.
Curtis has trouble locating the elusive Stanley, but he finds one of Stanley's treasured possessions: a slender volume of poems, «The Mirror Thief,» written in 1958
by a proto -
beatnik named Adrian Welles.
Much of their time was marked
by social gatherings at the legendary Greenwich Village bar «The Cedar» where
beatniks and fellow members of the New York art scene discussed art, sports, and politics.
Winters is as capable of humor (the insect - faced latter - day
beatnik with a beret) as he is pathos (the shy male nude surrounded
by underwater plants).
«
Beatnik Meteors,» the most recent exhibition at the di Rosa and the first in new curator Amy Owen's collaboration - focused program, is an energetic mish mash of installation, performance, film and sound works
by three groups...
Mary Heilmann's work has been deeply influenced «
by her personal experiences, including a childhood and adolescence split between Los Angeles - area beaches and Bay Area
beatnik clubs.
Disney passed two years later and the project was taken on
by the dean of the NYU School of the Arts, who injected unseemly New York career - orientation into the extended
beatnik art culture of Southern California.
A framed newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 15, 1964, describes the somewhat wayward clientele of the place as «
beatniks, neighborhood time wasters and unclassifiable types who could be radio talkers, TV writers, actresses and European tourists,» mentioning that in the past it was frequented
by such colorful luminaries as Jean Harlow, Clara Bow and John Barrymore.
In 1958, Leslie collaborated with photographer Robert Frank on the
beatnik classic Pull My Daisy, narrated
by Jack Kerouac and featuring Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Neel, and Larry Rivers, among many others.