Signed "Beat Art" Catalogue (1994)

New York City: New York University School of Education (exhibition catalogue), 1994.
8" x 8.5", 24 pages, stapled textured wraps.

Beat Art: Visual Works by and about the Beat Generation, an exhibition catalogue for the event held 17–22 May 1994 at the New York University School of Education. This was co-sponsored by the New York University School of Education, the Department of Art and Art Professions, the Office of Program Development, and the Office of Special Programs. The event was curated by Edward Adler and Bernard Mindich/ The catalogue was designed by Valerie Sauers.

Contributors to this exhibition were Richard Avedon, Gordon Ball, Lena Bertucci, William S. Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Ann Charters, Diana Church, Ira Cohen, John Cohen, Gregory Corso, Brook Dillon, Amy Evans, Chris Felver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Gill, Allen Ginsberg, Bobby Grossman, Jim Hatch, James Higgins, Jack Hirschman, Ted Joans, Larry Keenan Jr., Charles Kessler, Jack Kerouac, Robert LaVigne, Peter Le Blanc, Gerard Malanga, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michael McClure, Fred W. McDarrah, Jack Micheline, Bernard Mindich, James Oliver Mitchell, Ira Nowinski, Stephanie Peek, Harry Redl, Marcia Resnick, Harry Smith, Ettore Sottsass, John Suiter, Stanley Twardowicz, Mellon Tytell, Kristen Wetterhahn, et al.  

A text on William S. Burroughs is on pages 6–7, with reproductions of two of Burroughs' artworks: Swan Songs Echo (n.d., mixed media) and Call (1991, painting on paper). This additionally reproduces photographs of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Felver, and Gerard Malanga. 

This copy of the catalogue is signed by William S. Burroughs on the inside front cover, just below the well-known image of Hal Chase, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in New York City in 1944. This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).

Shoaf II.340.

Contents: 

• Edward Adler and Bernard Mindich: "Beat Art" (essay)
• Jack Kerouac: 
• "Jack Kerouac's Paintbox"
• "Stella by Jack" (drawing, 1968)
• "God" (oil and pencil on paper, n.d.)
• "Buddha" (crayon, n.d.)
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Hal Chase, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Riverside Drive, New York, 1944" (photograph)
• "Kitchen Window, East 12th Street, New York City, 1990" (photograph)
• "William Burroughs, Lawrence, Kansas, 1991" (photograph)
• "William Burroughs, New York City, 1953" (photograph)
• "Herbert Huncke, New York City, 1953" (photograph)
• Fred McDarrah: 
• "Jack Kerouac Reading a Passage from On the Road at the Artist's Studio, New York City, 1959" (photograph)
• "Kack Kerouac at the Artist's Club, New Year's Eve, 1958, New York City" (photograph)
• Harry Redl: "Allen Ginsberg and Moloch, Berkeley, 1956" (photograph)
• Chris Felver: 
• "Bob Kaufman and Gregory Corso, San Francisco, 1982" (photograph)
• "The Poet Exposed" (photo series, 1994)
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Swan Songs Echo" (mixed media, n.d.)
• "Call" (painting on paper, 1991)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Deux" (oil on canvas, 1950)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Duane Foster: "Two Poets at Berlin Wall" (oil and silkscreen on canvas, 1992)
• Gregory Corso: "Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou Spirit of Delight, Keats and Shelley" (oil on canvas, 1980s)
• Michael McClure: "Study for Grieved Skull" (marker, c.1993)
• Jack Micheline: "Beauty Is Everywhere Baudelaire" (oil on paper, 1994)
• Ted Joans: "From the Hipster Series" (collage, c.1961)
• Robert LaVigne: "Peter Orlovsky in Studio at Gough St, San Francisco" (oil on canvas, 1954)
• Diana Church: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Minnette Le Blanc, Peter Le Blanc, Howard Schrager, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Jack Hirschman, Bob Kaufman, and Ira Rothstein in Caffe Trieste, San Francisco, 1974" (photograph)
• Peter Le Blanc: "David Meltzer" (woodblock print, 1963)
• Kristen Wetterhahn: "Bob Kaufman" (woodcut, 1986)
• Elaine De Kooning: "Allen Ginsberg" (oil on canvas, c.1969)
• Stephanie Peek: "Lawrence Reading" (oil on canvas, 1993)
• Charles Gill: "Michael McClure" (lithograph, 1969)
• Harry Redl: "Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley Poetry Reading, 1956" (photograph)
• John Cohen: "Gregory Cors [sic, Corso], Alfred Leslie, and Robert Frank at Filming of Pull My Daisy, 1959" (photograph)
• Stanlet Twardowicz: "Gregory Corso" (photograph, c.1974)
• Ann Charters: "Jack Kerouac and His Mother, Gabrielle, Hyannis, Mass., 1966" (photograph)
• Ira Cohen: "Allen Ginsberg, Bandaged Poets Series, Amsterdam, 1979" (photograph)
• Marsha [sic, Marcia] Resnick: "Abbie Hoffman, New York City, 1981" (photograph)
• Mellon Tytell: "John Clellon Holmes" (photograph, 1974)
• Gerard Malanga: "William Burroughs, New York City, 1975" (photograph)
• James Mitchell: "Diane DiPrima [sic, di Prima], NYC, 1950s" (photograph)
• Jim Hatch: "Gary Snyder, Phillip [sic, Philip] Whalen and Lew Welch, San Francisco, 1964" (photograph)
• Ira Nowinski: "Shig Murao at Wedding Party, Caffe Trieste, San Francisco, 1977" (photograph)
• Brook Dillon: "Allen Ginsberg, Keeper of the Light, NYC, 1992" (photograph)