Publication of the work of writers on the "beat scene." With photographs by Fred McDarrah. Edited and with an introduction by Elias Wilentz. With contributions by Paul Blackburn, Ray Bremser, Marvin Cohen, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Richard Davidson, Diane DiPrima, Barbara Ellen, Kenward Elmslie, Bruce Fearing, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Fles, David Galler, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, James Grady, Robert Hanlon, Howard Hart, Richard Higgins, Lenore Jaffee, Ted Joans, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Seymour Krim, Tuli Kupferberg, Philip Lamantia, Martin Last, Joseph LeSueur, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, William Morris, Brigid Murnaghan, E. ... [details]
Survey of young artists of the school of New York edited and with an introduction by B.H. Friedman. Contents include: "Helen Frankenthaler," by B.H. Friedman; "Robert Goodnough," by Barbara Guest; "Grace Hartigan," by Emily Dennis; "Jasper Johns," by Ben Heller; "Alfred Leslie," by James Schuyler; "Joan Mitchell," by Irving Sandler; "Raymond Parker," by Bill Godden; "Robert Rauschenberg," by David Harrison Myers; "Larry Rivers," by Frank O'Hara; "Jon Schueler," by Alastair Reid; and "Richard Stankiewicz," by Fairfield Porter. ... [details]
Exhibition announcement poster published in conjunction with show held May 21 - June 10, 1951 at 60 East 9th st. in New York City. Organized by Leo Castelli. Artists included Alfred L. Copley, Rene Robert Bouche, James Brooks, Peter Busa, Theodore Brenson, Giorgio Cavallon, Nicolas Carone, Clement Greenberg, Willem de Kooning, Robert De Niro Sr. ... [details]
Winter 1937 issue of the periodical "Transition," edited by Eugene Jolas, associate editor James Johnson Sweeney. Front cover design by Marcel Duchamp reproducing the Readymade "Comb." Includes "In Memory of My Father," by James Agee; "Resurgent," by Forrest Anderson; "The Skeleton of the Day," by Hans Arp; "Le Pont Brisé," by Paul Eluard; "Two Poems," by Randall Jarrell; "Planetarische Reise," by Eugene Jolas; "Chêne et Chien," by Raymond Queneau; "Anonyme," by André de Richaud; "Lover as Fox," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Cactus Gardens," by Sanders Russell; "Séparation," by Camille Schuwer; "work in Progress. ... [details]
