beat era

1958

Book. Description: Patchen, Kenneth: Memoirs of a shy pornographer (San Francisco, City Lights, 1958) 2nd. printing, 235 pp. Condition 3.

Dimensions: 6 1/2" x 4 1/2".

From the...

1959

Poster. Description: "Don't Envy Beatniks - Be One! ... Trader Henri's do-it-yourself Beatnik Kit ...". Handlettered red and black marker pen on white poster board. Two amendments have been...

1961

Journal. Description: Journal for the protection of all beings (No. 1) (San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1961). Anthologizes poetry, prose and photographs by Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder,...

c.1958

Painting. Description: "The Beatnik Family". Caricature of adult man and woman, and a boy and girl. Polychrome watercolor, tempera and ink on paper. The figures of the man and woman were...

1960

Book. Description: Ginsberg, Allen: Kaddish and other poems 1958 - 1960 (San Francisco, City Lights, 1960) 100pp. in paper covers. Condition 3. 1st. ed. Dimensions: 6 1/4" x 4-7/8".

1956

Book. Description: Ginsberg, Allen: Howl (San Francisco, City Lights, 1956) 2nd ed., 44PP., in black paper cover with printed white overlay. Condition 2. Dimensions: 6 1/4" x 5"....

1958

Album Cover. Description: Cover to phonograph record "But Not For Me", recorded by the Ahmad Jamal Trio at the Pershing Lounge, Chicago. (Argo LP628.) Condition 3.

Dimensions: 12 1/4"...

1963

Artwork. Description: Oil on canvas painting by Kaffe Fassett, 1963. Shows the interior of the Old Spaghetti Factory Restaurant, owned by Fred Kuh. The painting is 48" x 48" on its stretcher;...

1996

This is a color tal print of Dennis Hopper and Allen Ginsberg in conversation.

1965

This is a black and white photograph of a group portrait of three men. From left to right: Michael McClure, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg and Dylan hold cigarettes and McClure has his...

c.1959-60
1960

This is a mixed media assemblage that consists of crumpled metal and plastic pieces that are attached to the center of a vertical wooden board. The surface of the metal is painted cream with...

Sandy and Mike at Home, Berkeley 1967
1967

This is a black and white photograph that shows a man and a woman sitting across from one another in a domestic room. A poster of Bob Dylan is mounted over a large American flag that hangs near...

The Last Gathering of Beats, Poets, and Artists, City Lights Books, North Beach, San Francisco, 1965
1965

This is a black and white photograph of a group portrait in front of city Lights Books in San Francisco, 1965. Front row L to R: Robert LaVigne, Shig Murao, Larry Fagin, Leland Meyezove (lying...

Group Grope
1969|1996

This is a black and white photograph that shows a group of young men and women in various stages of undress rolling around on a lawn. A dog and a monkey are visible at the edge of the group just...

1955
The Illustrated History of the Universe
1955

This is an oil painting on Masonite. The abstract composition has a light gray impasto surface with a dark gray outline of a circle that appears above center and slightly to the left. Small dots...

Jay De Feo, in Front of "The Rose" with a Glass of Roses
1959/1995
1962-63
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