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.
Not exact matches
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 p
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 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.