"Beatsville" visits the way-out world of the beatnik, circa 1959. It's a world of coffeehouses and bohemian pads, alive with poetry and jazz, populated with goatee sporting daddy-os and raven haired leotard wearing beatnik chicks, and all backed with a bongo beat guaranteed to send you into orbit. Beatsville is the first pop culture history of the beatnik. You'll be hipped to it all with an extensive visual tour of the era with record covers, books, comics, ceramics and more. Skirting around the more serious and philosophical tenants of the Beat Generation. Beatsville explores the above-ground pop culture manifestations of the beatnik... Maynard G. Krebs and Sheldon Epps, A Bucket of Blood and The Rebel Set, Like Crazy, Man and My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, The Cool Scene and Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales. The visual tour continues with abstract splashes of paint and surreal cra-zee perspectives as we delve into the kooky and far-out world of vintage beatnik art... and then coming out in contemporary times with beatnik inspired art by today's coolest artists including JD King, Shag, Coop, Mark Ryden, The Pizz, Jeff Raglus, Sunny Buick, Tim Biskup, Charles Schneider, Bosko, Lynne Naylor, Munktiki, Dave Burke, Frank Kozik, Bob Moss, Alan Forbes, Miles Thompson, Larry Wessel, Anthony Macknay, Gemma Jones, Mitch O'Connell, Cass Carnaby, Seonna Hong, Todd Schorr, XnO and Van. Beatsville is your ticket from squaresville to the world of the cool, the way-out and the offbeat. Click here GO! to view the works. Bookstore distribution is by Last Gasp, crash their website here GO Like again! Available in stores late December, this is "The first pop culture history of the beatnik". Edited by Martin McIntosh, essay by Domenic Priore. ISBN 0-9751078-0-1 Outré Gallery Press. 144 pages, full color US $26.95.
No comments:
Post a Comment