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The Beats
A Graphic History
Taschenbuch von Harvey Pekar
Sprache: Englisch

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In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and the Mad magazine artist Peter Kuper, The Beats takes us on a wild tour of a generation that, in the face of mainstream American conformity and conservatism, became known for its determined uprootedness, aggressive addictions, and startling creativity and experimentation.

What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940s and early 1950s laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations-from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay DeFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of-and tribute to-a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject.

In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and the Mad magazine artist Peter Kuper, The Beats takes us on a wild tour of a generation that, in the face of mainstream American conformity and conservatism, became known for its determined uprootedness, aggressive addictions, and startling creativity and experimentation.

What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940s and early 1950s laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations-from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay DeFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of-and tribute to-a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject.

Über den Autor
Harvey Pekar is the coauthor of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me (Hill and Wang, 2012) and is best known for his graphic autobiography, American Splendor, which was based on his long-running comic-book series and adapted into a film of the same name. He died in 2010.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780809016495
ISBN-10: 0809016494
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pekar, Harvey
Redaktion: Buhle, Paul
Illustrator: Piskor, Ed
Zusammengestellt: Peters, Nancy J.
Hersteller: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maße: 229 x 154 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Harvey Pekar
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2010
Gewicht: 0,337 kg
Artikel-ID: 121055795
Über den Autor
Harvey Pekar is the coauthor of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me (Hill and Wang, 2012) and is best known for his graphic autobiography, American Splendor, which was based on his long-running comic-book series and adapted into a film of the same name. He died in 2010.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780809016495
ISBN-10: 0809016494
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pekar, Harvey
Redaktion: Buhle, Paul
Illustrator: Piskor, Ed
Zusammengestellt: Peters, Nancy J.
Hersteller: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maße: 229 x 154 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Harvey Pekar
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2010
Gewicht: 0,337 kg
Artikel-ID: 121055795
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