%0 Journal Article %1 Mcw01 %A McWhinnie, John %D 2001 %J Modernism Magazine %K Burroughs Kerouac abstract anti-art article beat-art beat-poetry concept-art englisch expressionism kor-2008 modernism shotgun-painting year:2001 zufallsprodukt %N 3 %P 54-58 %T Art of the Beats %V 4 %X In 1944, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs formed a friendship that, says the author, led to one of the most important literary movements of the 20th century: the Beat Generation. Kerouac and Burroughs also created a substantial body of work in the visual arts. Kerouac made portraits in oil, watercolour, pencil and crayon, and Burroughs combined text and collage in works he called "cut-ups". Kerouac's understanding of writing included the expression of basic ideas in artwork as well as text. Alongside textual descriptions of picaresque detail and sketches for chapters and characters are repeated the images of Christ and Mary. Kerouac found inspiration in the work of the Abstract Expressionists, and he continued to fill notebooks with sketches, usually religious in nature. Kerouac's art has always been a constant search for the face of God. While Kerouac's art resonated with the ideas of the Abstract Expressionists, William Burrough's art reflected the preoccupations of emerging anti-art movements of the 1960s, especially conceptualism. As early as 1958, Burroughs was painting small, calligraphic, spidery work. Automatic drawing in particular became Burrough's vehicle for removing all traces of the artist's hand. Essentially a technique of collage and montage, Burroughs adopted a "cut-up" approach to literary and artistic production, combining fields of colour and photographs or newspaper illustration with random bits of text. In the 1980s, he turned to painting, using the unconventional aid of a shotgun

@article{Mcw01, abstract = {In 1944, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs formed a friendship that, says the author, led to one of the most important literary movements of the 20th century: the Beat Generation. Kerouac and Burroughs also created a substantial body of work in the visual arts. Kerouac made portraits in oil, watercolour, pencil and crayon, and Burroughs combined text and collage in works he called "cut-ups". Kerouac's understanding of writing included the expression of basic ideas in artwork as well as text. Alongside textual descriptions of picaresque detail and sketches for chapters and characters are repeated the images of Christ and Mary. Kerouac found inspiration in the work of the Abstract Expressionists, and he continued to fill notebooks with sketches, usually religious in nature. Kerouac's art has always been a constant search for the face of God. While Kerouac's art resonated with the ideas of the Abstract Expressionists, William Burrough's art reflected the preoccupations of emerging anti-art movements of the 1960s, especially conceptualism. As early as 1958, Burroughs was painting small, calligraphic, spidery work. Automatic drawing in particular became Burrough's vehicle for removing all traces of the artist's hand. Essentially a technique of collage and montage, Burroughs adopted a "cut-up" approach to literary and artistic production, combining fields of colour and photographs or newspaper illustration with random bits of text. In the 1980s, he turned to painting, using the unconventional aid of a shotgun}, added-at = {2008-09-03T13:05:26.000+0200}, author = {McWhinnie, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/262e9433bc88b766592db9572fbad94ef/kregulski}, description = {Nicht über Fernleihe zu beziehen}, interhash = {9114338f072e6a27205c1e961f008958}, intrahash = {62e9433bc88b766592db9572fbad94ef}, journal = {Modernism Magazine}, keywords = {Burroughs Kerouac abstract anti-art article beat-art beat-poetry concept-art englisch expressionism kor-2008 modernism shotgun-painting year:2001 zufallsprodukt}, note = {ISSN 1098-8211 Kerouac, Jack [1923-1969. USA. Novelist] Burroughs, William Seward [1914-1997. USA. Writer]}, number = 3, pages = {54-58}, timestamp = {2008-09-04T10:18:46.000+0200}, title = {Art of the Beats}, volume = 4, year = 2001 }