Unpositioned Something is wrong

The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 / Barry Miles

An account of the creative community of American Beat writers residing at a Paris hotel in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Drawing on primary sources, it explores the artistic environment that led to the development of the cut-up technique and several major literary works.

Author

ISBN

Publisher

TAGS

Curated Derived

Authors Biography Literature Professions

CONNECTIONS

No connections

LOCATION HISTORY

No location history available for this book.

FULL RECORD

Accession Number: 19813

Site: Vernon O Content

Collection: N/A

Location: N/A

Binding Type: Hard Back

Book Images

Hover to see live images

No live

The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 / Barry Miles cover

No live

VERNON DATA

American literature/United States -- Literatures Americans in literature Poets, American/Poets/Authors/Litterateurs/Philologists/Scholars/Persons Novelists, American/Authors/Litterateurs/Philologists/Scholars/Persons

{
  "slug": "the-beat-hotel-ginsberg-burroughs-and-corso-in-paris-1958-1963-barry-miles",
  "opacObjectId": "29609",
  "opacCollection": {
    "opacCollectionId": "1"
  },
  "imagesCollection": {
    "images": [
      {
        "imageId": "49022",
        "cssColors": [
          {
            "hex": "c0c0c0",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 17.73,
            "colorName": "silver",
            "lightness": 75,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 0,
            "formattedColorName": "silver"
          },
          {
            "hex": "708090",
            "hue": 210,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 61.13,
            "colorName": "slategray",
            "lightness": 50,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 13,
            "formattedColorName": "slate gray"
          },
          {
            "hex": "808080",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 6.11,
            "colorName": "gray",
            "lightness": 50,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 0,
            "formattedColorName": "gray"
          }
        ],
        "rawColors": [
          {
            "hex": "c0c0b2",
            "hue": 60,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 17.73,
            "lightness": 72,
            "saturation": 9
          },
          {
            "hex": "394148",
            "hue": 208,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 61.13,
            "lightness": 25,
            "saturation": 11
          },
          {
            "hex": "5c6c8b",
            "hue": 219,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 13.88,
            "lightness": 45,
            "saturation": 20
          },
          {
            "hex": "7b7c6f",
            "hue": 64,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 6.11,
            "lightness": 46,
            "saturation": 5
          },
          {
            "hex": "9aa58c",
            "hue": 86,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 0.25,
            "lightness": 59,
            "saturation": 12
          },
          {
            "hex": "6a756b",
            "hue": 125,
            "rank": 6,
            "presence": 0.78,
            "lightness": 43,
            "saturation": 4
          },
          {
            "hex": "7883af",
            "hue": 228,
            "rank": 7,
            "presence": 0.11,
            "lightness": 57,
            "saturation": 25
          }
        ],
        "imageLabels": [
          {
            "count": 16657,
            "score": 70.01,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Publication",
            "imageLabelId": 23
          },
          {
            "count": 4932,
            "score": 67.72,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Advertising",
            "imageLabelId": 71
          }
        ],
        "imageDerivatives": [
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/large/35234/d6e1089cab9d3301b4637a46e3891949178d2dc9.jpg",
            "width": "533",
            "height": "800",
            "identifier": "LARGE"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/medium/35234/d6e1089cab9d3301b4637a46e3891949178d2dc9.jpg",
            "width": "266",
            "height": "400",
            "identifier": "MEDIUM"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/nano/35234/d6e1089cab9d3301b4637a46e3891949178d2dc9.jpg",
            "width": "23",
            "height": "35",
            "identifier": "NANO"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/small/35234/d6e1089cab9d3301b4637a46e3891949178d2dc9.jpg",
            "width": "100",
            "height": "150",
            "identifier": "SMALL"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/tiny/35234/d6e1089cab9d3301b4637a46e3891949178d2dc9.jpg",
            "width": "50",
            "height": "75",
            "identifier": "TINY"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/xlarge/35234/d6e1089cab9d3301b4637a46e3891949178d2dc9.jpg",
            "width": "799",
            "height": "1200",
            "identifier": "XLARGE"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "totalImages": 1
  },
  "objectSearchScore": 0.32595828,
  "opacObjectFieldSets": [
    {
      "identifier": "accession_no",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "19813"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 / Barry Miles",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "title",
              "value": "The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 / Barry Miles"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "other_name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "artist_last_first",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Miles, Barry"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "2000",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "earliest_date",
              "value": "2000-01-01Z"
            },
            {
              "key": "latest_date",
              "value": "2000-12-31Z"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "edition",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "First edition"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "brief_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Recreates the period 1957 to 1963, when Paris's Beat Hotel, a cheap rooming house on the bohemian Left Bank, became the home and gathering place of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and other luminaries of the Beat Generation."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "measure_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "credit_line",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "curr_loc_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Stored",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "curr_loc_status:\"Stored\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "ob_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Accessioned"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "lender",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_owner",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_start",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_expiry",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "object_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "object_type:\"Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "collection",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Main Collection/Library",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "collection:\"Main Collection/Library\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "New York City/New York/United States of America"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "physical_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "294 pages ; 22 cm."
        },
        {
          "value": "Includes bibliographical references."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "language",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "isbn_issn",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "080211668X"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_1",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "810.9 MIL"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "usual_loc_being",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Side B/Stack 1/Library Stack/Zone 1/Ground/Moonah Offices & Storage"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_class",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "American literature/United States -- Literatures",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"American literature/United States -- Literatures\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Americans in literature",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Americans in literature\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Poets, American/Poets/Authors/Litterateurs/Philologists/Scholars/Persons",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Poets, American/Poets/Authors/Litterateurs/Philologists/Scholars/Persons\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Novelists, American/Authors/Litterateurs/Philologists/Scholars/Persons",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Novelists, American/Authors/Litterateurs/Philologists/Scholars/Persons\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_date",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_period",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "William S. Burroughs (American, b.1914, d.1997)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"William S. Burroughs (American, b.1914, d.1997)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Allen Ginsberg (b.1926, d.1997)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Allen Ginsberg (b.1926, d.1997)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Jack Kérouac (b.1922, d.1969)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Jack Kérouac (b.1922, d.1969)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Gregory Corso (b.1930, d.2001)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Gregory Corso (b.1930, d.2001)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Peter Orlovsky (b.1933, d.2010)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Peter Orlovsky (b.1933, d.2010)\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Harold Norse (b.1916, d.2009)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"Harold Norse (b.1916, d.2009)\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Paris/île-de-France/France",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_place:\"Paris/île-de-France/France\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_9",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relationshipsCollection": {
    "relationships": [
      {
        "relatedRecords": [
          {
            "slug": "barry-miles",
            "title": "Barry Miles",
            "relatedRecordId": "33601"
          }
        ],
        "relationshipId": "object_prod_pri_person",
        "relatedRecordType": "person",
        "totalRelatedRecords": 1
      }
    ],
    "totalRelationships": 1
  }
}