The origins of the Beat Generation can be traced to a group of students (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Hal Chase & others) who in 1948 challenged their conservative, formulaic writing professors at Columbia University.
Beat Generation
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Seventeen Art Stars
In the 1950s and 60s, Seventeen magazine was staffed by some (not yet) superstar graphic talent including Ad Reinhart, Andy Warhol, Roger Weaver, and Sol Lewitt — who drew the illustration pictured above for the magazine in 1957.
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At 13 We Were Nazis
Whoa, now this is a head turning headline, ‘At 13 we were Nazis but then we discovered marijuana and it has changed everything.’
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Sadobabies (1988)
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco (1988) follows a group of San Francisco street kids who occupy the vacant Polytechnic High School and make miniature dolls of themselves.
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Dead Girls Rising
Laura Palmer, found dead in the first five minutes of the Twin Peaks pilot (1989), is one of a countless number of teen girls worshipped post-mortem.
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“Teena” & Estelle Ellis Rubinstein
Estelle Ellis Rubinstein, a founding promotional director of Seventeen Magazine in 1944, died on July 1, 2012.
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Harold Teen
Harold Teen was a popular comic strip in the 1920s written and drawn by Carl Ed.
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Swim Girl, Swim!
Gertrude Ederle learned in swim at age 9 in while summering in her New Jersey cottage.
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4H Friends
1920– a bread-making demonstration on the lawn of Anson County Courthouse, North Carolina.
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A Murder of Crows
httpv://youtu.be/I5YT3XVu7tU
“Coraliza” was recorded in 1988 by A Murder Of Crows, the music project of 19-year-old Elliott Stillwater-Rotter, later known as Elliott Smith, and Garrick Duckler.