Catalogue for "Beat Culture and the New America", 1950-1965 (1995)

New York City: Whitney Museum of American Art and Paris, France: Flammarion (book, exhibition catalogue, inscribed), 1995.
11.25" x 8.75" x 1.125", 280 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 2-08013-613-5.

Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965, edited by Lisa Phillips and co-published by the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) and Flammarion (Paris, France) in 1995.

A large exhibition catalogue for the event at the Whitney (NYC) between 9 November 1995 and 4 February 1996; at the Walker (Minneapolis, MN) between 2 June 1996 and 15 September 1996; at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (SF, CA.) between 5 October 1996 and 29 December 1996.

Burroughs is mentioned throughout, and there are a number of photographs and reproductions of art by Burroughs (and Brion Gysin).

This book is not indexed.

This copy was acquired from Sore Dove Press publisher Soheyl Dahi (San Francisco, California), and was inscribed to him by poet Joanna McClure.

Contents:

• David A. Ross: "Director's Foreword"
• Lisa Phillips: Acknowledgments
• Allen Ginsberg: Prologue
• Lisa Phillips: "Beat Culture: America Reinvisioned"
• Rebecca Solnit: "Heretical Constellations: Notes on California, 1946-1961"
• Maurice Berger: "Libraries Full of Tears: The Beats and the Law"
• Maria Damon: "Victors of Catastrophe: Beat Occlusions"
• Mona Lisa Saloy: "Black Beats and Black Issues"
• Glenn O'Brien: "The Beat Goes On"
• Ray Carney: "Escape Velocity: Notes on Beat Film"
• John G. Hanhardt: "A Movement Toward the Real: Pull My Daisy and the American Independent Film, 1950-1965"
• Ray Carney: "No Exit: John Cassavetes' Shadows"
• Edward Sanders: "The Legacy of the Beats"
• Steven Watson: Chronology
• Selected Bibliography
• Works in the Exhibition