Youth Adult Fashion Beatniks Hipsters Beatnik Writers Jack Keruoac Beatnik Writers Allen Ginsberg The first part of Howl presents a picture of a nightmare world the second part is an indictment of those elements of modern society destructive to the best qualities of human nature ID: 464249
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1950s Pop CultureSlide2
Youth
Adult
FashionSlide3
BeatniksSlide4
HipstersSlide5Slide6
Beatnik Writers
Jack
KeruoacSlide7
Beatnik Writers
Allen Ginsberg
The first part of “Howl” presents a picture of a nightmare world; the second part is an indictment of those elements of modern society destructive to the best qualities of human nature . . . materialism, conformity, and mechanization leading toward war . . . It ends in a plea for holy living
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—Superior Court Judge Clayton Horn, 1957Slide8
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock
#1 Most Expensive painting in the world
= $148 millionSlide9Slide10
a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses
lined up
inflexibly
, at uniform distances, on
uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the
same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers,
conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold.—Lewis Mumford The City in History, 1961I drive my car to supermarketThe way I take is
superhigh,A superlot is where I park it,And Super Suds are what I buy.Supersalesmen sell me tonic—Super
-Tone-O for Relief.
The planes I ride are
super
sonic.
In trains, I like the
Super
Chief.
—John Updike
Super
man
, 1954
They are not the workers . . . in the usual . . . sense of the word. These people not only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. They are the ones of our middle class who have
left home, spiritually as well as physically
, to take the vows of organization life.—William Whyte The Organization Man, 1956Critics of Conformity[The middle-class suburban child] “learns to conform to the group almost as soon as he learns anything.” [Such children grow up valuing] “fitting in” [with their peers far above thinking for themselves or striving for individual achievement.]-- David Riesman The Lonely CrowdTelevision was nicknamed the “idiot box” and called by poet T.S. Eliot a“medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”Slide11
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