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Exhibition »Beat Generation«
© Foto: Brion Gysin, Naked Lunch Serie, Paris, Oktober 1959
The ZKM | Karlsruhe will be the second stage of the »Beat Generation« exhibition after the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the last few years, the ZKM has dedicated a number of major exhibitions to the leading figures of the Beat Generation, such as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
In this new exhibition, an overview of the literary and artistic movement, which was created at the end of the 1940s, will now be provided for the first time. If “beatniks” were viewed back then as subversive rebels, they are now perceived as actors in one of the most important cultural directions of the 20th century.
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Image - Gallery
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'Danger' - Portrait von William S. Burroughs vor dem Odéon Theater, Paris 1959 Courtesy „The Barry Miles Archive“© Foto: Brion Gysin, Naked Lunch Serie, Paris, Oktober 1959 -
Gysin, Brion 'Calligraphie', 1960 Indian ink on paper Marouflage on canvas© Galerie de France © Jonathan Greet / Archives Galerie de -
Scottsass, Ettore Spoerri, Daniel 'Neal Cassady, Los Gatos, Californie', 1962 Silver gelatin extraction (2016)© Adagp, Paris, 2016 photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Fonds Sottsass -
Corso, Grégory 'There is No More Street Corner...' ,1960 Poem, unpublished manuscript.© DR photo: © Archives Jean-Jacques Lebel -
Kerouac, Jack 'On the Road' (tapuscrit original), 1951 tracing paper 360 x 22 cm Collection James S. Irsay© Estate of Anthony G. Sampatacacus and the Estate of Jan Kerouac © John Sampas, Executor, The Estate of Jack Kerouac -
Cohen, John »Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Gregory Corso«, 1959 Silver gelatin extraction 22.2 x 33 cm© John Cohen photo © Courtesy L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York
