Sentences with phrase «of beat poet»

By comparison, the loping, sniffing Le chien (1951) displays a sprightliness consistently denied Giacometti's humans, reminiscent of the Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's wry ode to the «canine condition»:
Hollowell's association of the light in her paintings with orgasm, cited in the press release, evokes connections to earlier efforts to engineer bodily energy, such as Wilhelm Reich's orgone box, or to the proto - psychedelic technology of Beat poet Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, a rotating light box intended to generate transcendent, hypnotic states.
An energetic debut feature from director John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is a hybrid biopic and crime drama based on actual events from the life of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe).
«Kill Your Darlings» plays like a sort of Muppet Babies version of the Beat Poets.
The majority of the beat poets made sweet F.A in their life times.
His performance is followed by more music from Black Shoe Polish, consisting of: Gerry Fialka, Paulie Dee, Tad Dery & guests all in the vein of the Beat Poets that originated in Venice!
It was a time of the beat poets, street actions, group events, the London Film Co-operative and small press publications.
Following a stint at Black Mountain College studying with the poets Charles Olsen, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan, Chamberlain moved to New York, where he became a fixture at the Cedar Tavern, the storied watering hole of Beat poets and Abstract Expressionist painters.
His visionary practice resonates with the glamour of Pop Art, the language of science fiction, the anti-materialism of the Beat poets and the hallucinations of Vincent Van Gogh.
His visionary practice resonated with the glamour of Pop Art, the language of science fiction, the anti-materialism of the Beat poets and the hallucinations of Vincent Van Gogh.
It was all connected with poetry and the Hungry Eye and all these places where young comedians were coming up and lots of Beat poets.

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Surrealists, Beat poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly modern — as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.
North Beach in San Francisco saw the opening of the Caffe Trieste in 1957, which saw Beat Generation poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Bob Kaufman alongside bemused Italian immigrants.
He looks his age, particularly when he dons a pair of glasses to study a box score, and perhaps more than ever his visage suggests a philosophy professor or perhaps a beat poet.
Jack Kerouac was one of the first beat poets and authors to create work influenced by Eastern philosophy, when he began studying it in 1954.
The directorial debut by John Krokidas brings forth the story of some of the best poets of the beat generation: Ginsberg, Lucien Carr (DeHaan), William Burroughs (Foster), and Jack Kerouac (Huston) and the murder that forever changed their lives.
They're all actors who have played beat poet Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl, in various projects over the years.
John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.
I think Blanchett — with her sorrow and defeat — affected me the most deeply, and most of all in his / her scenes with the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (David Cross).
The work of Dylan Thomas, Vachel Lindsay, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, and then, of course, the Beat Poets, helped de-anchor me temporarily from my malaise but the intemperate despair of youth would inevitably overwhelm me.
Whether you feel like a seasoned beat poet, or are just dipping your toes into the world of poetry reading and performance, there are many ways to bring poetry into the classroom.
I'll be in San Francisco over Memorial Day weekend, and my trip itinerary includes its own sort of literary pilgrimage — to the famous City Lights Bookstore, founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953.
Odd little circular conversations (such as asking a beat poet to keep on getting up on stage to repeat pointless prose) haven't lost any of their surreal appeal.
Traversing the country from postwar Black Mountain College to Beat - period San Francisco, Jess and Duncan influenced a wide range of young artists and poets, nurturing a creative circle that included Wallace Berman, Ronald Bladen, Edward Corbett, Llyn Foulkes, George Herms, Pauline Kael, R. B. Kitaj, William McNeill, and Robert Dean Stockwell.
Its title referencing late beat poet Allen Ginsberg's book Mind Breaths (1977), Julie Mehretu's first show at Marian Goodman in Paris fans no less than 32 pieces of abstraction across the gallery's two floors.
At that time there was a flood of self - published books, The Mimeo Revolution, where poets and painters of different stripes, from New York School poets and beats would be working with Pop and representational painters.
Years ago, gripped by this anxiety, we imitated the mid-war English poets until the Beats and the New York School gave a new generation of poseurs a style to riff on.
A crucial figure in post-war California art, Berman is known for his series of poetic and sepia - toned Verifax collages that articulated the voices of poets, musicians, and visual artists from America's underground Beat generation.
A majority of the venues feature works of art that capture the diverse heritage of the East Village including the early beat poets, abstract expressionists and more recently, street and graffiti themed works.
Though more closely identified with the San Francisco Beat artists and poets of the late 1950s and early 1960s, DeFeo also looked to the Surrealists a generation older than she, and drew from artists such as Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whom she once called her «north star.
With its complex structures, spontaneous rhythms and sampled, collage - like manifestations, his work was drawn into the orbit of the Beat Generation poets and the protagonists of the musical avant - garde.
Compelling photographs taken by renowned 20th - century American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926 — 1997) of himself and his fellow Beat poets are the subject of the first scholarly exhibition and catalogue of these works.
It was powerful, huge, overwhelming and mysterious, and for those of us who had a passing interest in Zen, Zen calligraphy and the Beat Poets had a spiritual content we had not experienced before.
DeFeo was a pivotal figure in the historic San Francisco community of Beat artists, poets, and jazz musicians at the time, and in 1966 she completed her seminal work The Rose.
Join Dr. Alan Golding, Professor of English at the University of Louisville, to explore connections between the work of Bruce Conner and the Beat poets.
He was then educated at Columbia University, where he became acquainted with a circle of poets that would gain notoriety as the «Beat Generation» of the 1950s and»60s.
The combined forces of his formal training, quick graffiti chops, and expert skills as a draftsman, along with multiple artistic influences (Mexican Muralists, tramp art, surfer culture, graffiti from the 1970s and 1980s, the beat poets, geometric abstraction, op art, early video and site - specific works, graphic design, typography, and cartoons) have factored into his unwieldy, yet unmistakable visual lexicon.
Ugo Rondinone's surround - sound presentation of the 79 - year - old beat poet John Giorno, saying his catty goodbyes to the world in a meandering lament that takes no prisoners, is a touching tribute to an old beatnik's fearlessness.
Referencing a quote by Beat Generation poet William S. Burroughs, When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out echoes approaches attributed to cut - up poetry, early hip hop, spoken word, and the sculptural practice of artist Gordon Matta - Clark, who sliced into urban spaces as social commentary.
A pivotal figure in the 1950s Beat culture of artists, poets and musicians, DeFeo is most closely identified with one work, considered her finest achievement: «The Rose,» a nearly 12 - foot - tall painting that took eight years to complete, weighs a ton and is in the Whitney's permanent collection.
His pictures are candid photographs of legendry «Beat» writers and poets — including William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac as well as the counterculture generation.
Patterson's «day - to - day visual history of the area» is told through «unpretentious portraits of myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggres, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots.»
In the arts, that age was announced in the work of the «Beat» poets and novelists round Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and the New York School of Abstract Expressionist painters, led by Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.
[46] Blake also had an enormous influence on the beat poets of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s, frequently being cited by such seminal figures as beat poet Allen Ginsberg and songwriters Bob Dylan, [47] Jim Morrison, and Van Morrison.
Albany Poets, Urban Guerilla Theatre and The Frequency North Reading Series have teamed up to bring the Nitty Gritty Slam back to Albany on the first and third Tuesday of each month at The Low Beat, 335 Central Ave., Albany.
The Beat Holy Trinity was composed of poet Allen Ginsberg, novelist Jack Kerouac and experimental prose writer Burroughs.
The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.
His projective poetics was an inspiration to the so - called Black Mountain poets — a loose movement of teachers, such as Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley, and students at Black Mountain College — as well as other experimental poets such as Denise Levertov, who was published in the Black Mountain Review (which Creeley edited), and also Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure.
Poets Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley also joined the faculty, and the latter established and served as the editor of the Black Mountain Review (1954 — 57), a literary journal that published experimental poetry, including works by the Beat pPoets Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley also joined the faculty, and the latter established and served as the editor of the Black Mountain Review (1954 — 57), a literary journal that published experimental poetry, including works by the Beat poetspoets.
As a young African - American artist in New York City, Thompson took advantage of his vibrant surroundings, befriending celebrated jazz musicians, noted art historians, and Beat poets alike.
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