West Coast Beat artists

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artistic movement literary movement

West Coast Beat artists were a loose group of mid-20th-century writers and visual artists based primarily in California who blended Beat Generation sensibilities with West Coast countercultural, spiritual, and experimental art practices.

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Label Occurrences
West Coast Beat artists canonical 1
West Coast poets 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic movement ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
artisticDiscipline assemblage art ⓘ
book arts ⓘ
collage ⓘ
painting ⓘ
performance ⓘ
photography ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
printmaking ⓘ
prose ⓘ
small press publishing ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
hasCharacteristic Buddhist influence ⓘ
anti-establishment attitudes ⓘ
association with coffeehouse culture ⓘ
bohemian lifestyle ⓘ
collaborative practices ⓘ
countercultural politics ⓘ
cross-disciplinary work ⓘ
experimentation ⓘ
improvisation ⓘ
integration of text and image ⓘ
interest in Eastern religions ⓘ
jazz-inspired rhythms ⓘ
public readings ⓘ
spiritual exploration ⓘ
use of small presses and little magazines ⓘ
hasInfluence New American Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ
San Francisco Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ
West Coast counterculture NERFINISHED ⓘ
counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ
performance art ⓘ
psychedelic art ⓘ
spoken word poetry ⓘ
underground comix ⓘ
location Berkeley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ
Big Sur, California NERFINISHED ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form: California

Los Angeles ⓘ
North Beach, San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ
San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ
Venice, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ
movementPeriod 1940s ⓘ
1950s ⓘ
1960s ⓘ
mid-20th century ⓘ
partOf Beat Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Wallace Berman → influenced → West Coast Beat artists ⓘ
Jack Spicer → influenced → West Coast Beat artists ⓘ
this entity surface form: West Coast poets