The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kristine McKenna and Lorraine Wild edited this book and contributed an introduction and afterword. The photographs in this book depict self-portraits of Wallace Berman and portaits of his family and friends. As the editors indicate, whether the photographs were casual or staged are not clear. None of Berman's photographs were used in his Verifex collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue focuses on the erotic and often overtly pornographic works by Berman and Prince. The catalogue Includes a reproduction of the poster for Michael Mcclure's "The Beard." This poster is also held by the Sackne Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.