Themes: Just Kids

CULTURE / FASHION SOCIAL GENDER / SELF- SOCIAL DREAMS / ART / CREATIVITY / URBAN HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHICAL CULTURAL NETWORKS / WOMEN’S IDENTITY CLASS DREAMING BEING AN ARTIST STUDIES SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES cultural norms fashion as Friendship Gender the "art" of working The American creativity: imitation The City era of 60's and 70's in the Patti Smith counter- norms becoming poor Dream and originality US Robert cultural change culture the family oneself the country vs. Mapplethorpe (acceptance of on being a class NYC and the the artistic process the city / urban Drug culture in NYC punk rock & "fashioning alternative woman becoming an mobility American vs. rural --figures: gay rights) freedom" families artist artist Dream evolution of an artist the AIDS crisis (and “in American New York City NYC”) Warhol counter- the fashion love and on being a fashion as social classes dreams, the spiritual and the Burroughs culture, of punk (see romance, love as gay artist identity / structure commitment divine in art, the fine NYC as promised history of punk Hendrix cultural Met exhibit) friendship to, pursuing of line between creativity land, "empire Joplin revolution gender self and poor and & divinity state of mind" history of rock n roll Ginsberg fashion and Max's (and identity world / white “the starving the Velvet the culture of gender Warhol and family artist” in NYC --forms of art (in the --places (in the history of photography, esp Underground and punk rock punk and glam sexuality homelessnes book): book): re: Mapplethorpe Lou Reed performance rock and the / sexual the role of s and ~~ Sam Shepherd Bohemian NYC / performa- Velvet identity luck, indigence -music NYC Max's (and Warhol and [incomplete] & “hippie” tivity Underground happen- “The Resilience Punk Rock and its Coney Island punk and glam rock and counter-culture and the New androgyny stance and poverty of the Dreamer” influence/legacies Paris the New York School of --icons / York School of “magic” in is the title of Pratt poetry and the current devotional class cultures Poetry, etc) queen who we hunger Patti Smith’s art -poetry Fort Greene project of supporting teen figures: culture become, installation in The Beats and The Village artists) gender, sex and where we theft the Rockaways: meditation and their The Chelsea St. Joan sexuality end up http://momaps1 influence Hotel --epochal movements of Dylan cultures .org/rockaway1/ CBGB the time: Jim Morrison/The -literature Max's Doors artist / arts autobiography: Central Park Gay rights Rimbaud cultures memoir, genre of elegy [incomplete] Women’s rights Coltrane Civil rights: passive Genet culture and -visual art resistance and MLK; [incomplete] spirituality, Photography Malcolm X; the Black religious vs. counter-cultural / Panthers non-religious radical The Vietnam War, resistance movement -dramatic thereof Woodstock and “hippie” -fashion as art counter-culture [incomplete]