Welcome to Beatsville Pad - the website dedicated to the book Beatsville published by Outré Gallery Press.
Here you will find sample pages from the book, links, a continuing archive of stuff that didn't make it into the book and last but not least items for sale including the book itself, original artwork and limited edition merchandise. Like crazy, man!
Visit the way-out world of the beatnik, circa 1959. It's a world of coffeehouses and bohemian pads, alive with poetry and jazz, populated with goatee sporting daddy-os and raven haired leotard wearing beatnik chicks, and all backed with a bongo beat guaranteed to send you into orbit.
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Beatsville is the first pop culture history of the beatnik. You'll be hipped to it all with an extensive visual tour of the era with record covers, books, comics, ceramics and more. Skirting around the more serious and philosophical tenants of the Beat Generation Beatsville explores the above-ground pop culture manifestations of the beatnik... Maynard G. Krebs and Sheldon Epps, A Bucket of Blood and The Rebel Set, Like Crazy, Man and My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, The Cool Scene and Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales.
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The visual tour continues with abstract splashes of paint and surreal cra-zee perspectives as we delve into the kooky and far-out world of vintage beatnik art... and then coming out in contemporary times with beatnik inspired art by today's coolest artists including Shag, Coop, Mark Ryden, The Pizz, Jeff Raglus, Sunny Buick and Tim Biskup, Charles Schneider, Bosko, Lynne Naylor, Munktiki, Dave Burke, Frank Kozik, Bob Moss, Alan Forbes, Miles Thompson, Larry Wessel, Anthony Macknay, Gemma Jones, Mitch O'Connell, Cass Carnaby, Seonna Hong, Todd Schorr, XnO, Van and JD King.
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Beatsville is your ticket from squaresville to the world of the cool, the way-out and the
offbeat
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Beatsville will be in stores mid-December 2003
Edited by Martin McIntosh
Essay by Domenic Priore
144 pages - full color
softcover - US$26.95
hardcover - US$75.00 (only available via the website - not available in stores)
US distribution to stores by Last Gasp of San Francisco www.lastgasp.com
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email us: outre@alphalink.com.au |
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contact the webmaster: Smashing Time Web Design |
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