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22 mars 2012 · Now comes Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922–October 21, 1969) — cultural icon, symbolism sage, exquisite idealist — with his 30-point list, entitled Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. With items like “No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge” and “Accept loss forever,” the list is as much a blueprint for writing as it is a meditation on life.
1 mai 2008 · But the film remains a supreme document of Beat Generation energy at its peak, with several of its key players starring: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo Frank (Robert Frank's then-infant son).
22 oct. 2009 · Nearly half a century after its debut, Jack Kerouac’s “Big Sur” is getting its due. By the time he published the book in 1962, Kerouac was already lost in the alcoholism that killed him ...
This widely celebrated Beat film was directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie and features an improvised narrative by Jack Kerouac. It is shown in full in the exhibition. The downstairs galleries at the Barbican are dedicated to highlights of Neel’s later portrait paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, when she made some of her most celebrated work.
27 sept. 2017 · The rambling letter by Neal Cassady that inspired “On the Road,” lost for more than 60 years, has been acquired by Emory University, which is putting it on view
27 oct. 2015 · ALEXANDRA DAVID-NÉEL’S travelogue belongs to an era when it was possible to slip into protracted obscurity and follow one’s dreams to the very end of the earth. Such was its impact, My Journey to Lhasa influenced many of the Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as the Eastern philosopher, Alan Watts.
Kerouac arrived in San Francisco by train on or around July 22, 1960, "really happy for the first time in three years,” wrote Kerouac in his 1962 novel, Big Sur. Plans had been made a week before for he and Ferlinghetti to have dinner with Henry Miller upon Jack’s arrival: “Miller was going to drive up the coast from where he lived on Partington Ridge, to Carmel Highlands, to the house ...
