{"product_id":"kerouac-beat-painting-hardcover","title":"Kerouac: Beat Painting - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books)), \u003cb\u003eSandrina Bandera\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlessandro Castiglioni\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKerouac's spontaneous bop poetics in paint: a little-known side of the Beat icon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as being the author of novels that defined postwar America and helped launch the counterculture, Jack Kerouac was also a prolific painter and draftsman. But his artistic work--inspired by the artists of the New York School with whom Kerouac socialized in the late '50s--has remained largely unknown. Most of Kerouac's artworks were inherited by a relative and remained unseen in the author's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, for decades. Now, this new publication offers the chance to explore what Kerouac's unique vision looked like in paint and pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack Kerouac: Beat Painting\u003c\/i\u003e features 80 paintings and drawings by Kerouac, most of which have never before been published, shedding a completely new light on the father of the Beat Generation, and showing how he brought the same energy to visual art as he did to all of his other endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking at Kerouac's portraits (taking on everyone from Joan Crawford to William S. Burroughs) and exploring the artist's relationships to Europe, religion, fashion and New York in the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eJack Kerouac: Beat Painting\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a journey through Kerouac's life, poetics and vision, analyzing his labyrinthine creative process and his place in American visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-69) is considered one of the founders of the Beat Generation, a literary and artistic movement that arrived on the American scene in the late 1940s with an influential vision of spontaneity and liberation in life and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.7 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769703104800,"sku":"9788857237794","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3f1f941c6041594e4fec0f8ffa8a0b37.webp?v=1780354005","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/kerouac-beat-painting-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}