BEATNIK

ABOVE: beatnik-bjohnson-Fall 2008


ABOVE: beatnik-bjohnson-Fall 2008

ABOVE: the Parisian Beat scene in Funny Face (1957)

Beatniks were a group of poets and writers that looked for spirituality in many things including Eastern spirituality and drugs. They were open to many things and are often coined with the look of fitted bottoms, turtlenecks and berets.

"Members of the “beat” movement in the United States in the 1950s. Beatniks frequently rejected middle-class American values, customs, and tastes in favor of radical politics and exotic jazz, art, and literature. The movement was often classified as bohemian. The poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist Jack Kerouac are examples of beatnik authors.

• “Daddy-O” (a term of address); “Cool, man, cool”; and “strictly dullsville” are examples of slang expressions used by beatniks or by people trying to sound like beatniks."

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