Beat

By Christopher Felver

Subjects: Biography, Intellectual life, American Authors, Counterculture, Authors, american, Portrait photography, Beat generation, Pictorial works, Beats (Persons), Portraits, National characteristics, American, in literature, History and criticism, Bohemianism, American literature, Authors, American, Beats (persons), History, Literature and society

Description: A collection of images, text, ephemera, artifacts, and reminiscence celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the men and women known as the Beat Generation. Spotlighted are Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey, Jay DeFeo, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many more.