books about: 1950-1965 (collection africaines)

books about: 1950-1965

books:

Images Gone With Time : Photographic Reflections of Slovak Folk Life (1950-1965)

2 reviews
Igor Grossmann

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000

An invaluable, informative, historical overview.
Images Gone With Time: Photographic Reflections Of Slovak Life 1950-1963 is a fascinating and visual historical and anthropological record of a place and way of life now gone. Igor Grossman's starkly beautiful black-and-white photographs capture the essence of Slovak village life in a mountainous region of Central Europe at the moment of encounter between the old ways and the new day of ...

The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle Of 1950-1965

1 review
Edmund Wilson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965

Edmund Wilson is a cynical gem.
This book introduced me to Edmund Wilson and I haven't been able to appreciate literary chronicles before this one, to think that he wrote this book so long ago, but writes with such ease it is a simple read, even for a young person like me. I heard of Edmund Wilson when he wrote about a great early 20th century poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco 1950-1965

Dutton, 1974

Catalog of exhibit of Beat poet materials organized by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Les etudiants africains en France, 1950-1965 (Collection Etudes africaines)
Fabienne Guimont

Harmattan, 1997

Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965

1 review
Allen Ginsberg

Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996

The Beat Generation in various forms
This catalogue has excellent photographs that gives one a sense of the attitude of the Beat Generation. Everyone is familiar with the writers of the period, but not everyone knows about art generated during those years. This catalogue gives a review of art, film, and writing being created at the time. Not only that but it devotes a chapter to women and a chapter to minorites working during ...