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– Becker, 1963: Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York, 1963.
– Brode, 2004: Douglas Brode, From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture, Austin, 2004.
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– Jess, 1983: Jess: Paste-Ups (and Assemblies), 1951-1983, Michael Auping ed., (exh. cat., Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1984), Sarasota, 1983.
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– Kerouac, 1957: Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, 1957.
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– The Last Time, 1976: The Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1957-1966, Betty Turnbull ed., (exh. cat., Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Museum, 1976), Newport Beach, 1976.
– Lipton, 1959: Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, New York, 1959.
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– Lost and Found…, 1988: Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, Sandra Leonard Starr ed., (exh. cat., Santa Monica, James Corcoran Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Pence Gallery, 1988), Santa Monica, 1988.
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– MacAdams, 2001: Lewis MacAdams, Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde, New York, 2001.
– Mailer, 1957: Norman Mailer, “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster,” in Dissent, 3, Fall 1957, p. 276-293.
– Majors, Billson, 1992: Richard Majors, Janet Mancini Billson, Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America, New York, 1992.
– Maniaque-Benton, 2011: Caroline Maniaque-Benton, French Encounters with the American Counterculture, 1960-1980, Farnham/Burlington, 2011.
– Man ray, 1963: Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston, 1963.
– McClure, (1982) 1994: Michael McClure, Scratching the Beat Surface, (San Francisco, 1982) New York, 1994.
– McKenna, 2009: Kristine McKenna, The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin, Göttingen, 2009.
– Meltzer, 2001: David Meltzer ed., San Francisco Beat: Talking With the Poets, San Francisco, 2001.
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– Pacific Dreams, 1995: Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957, Susan Ehrlich ed., (exh. cat., Los Angeles, University of California, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 1995), Los Angeles, 1995.
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– Plagens, (1974) 1999: Peter Plagens, Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (New York, 1974) Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1999.
– Poets of the Cities, 1974: Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, Neil A. Chassman ed., (exh. cat., Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1974), New York, 1974.
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– Rolling Renaissance, 1968: Rolling Renaissance: San Francisco Underground Art in Celebration, 1945-1968, Robert E. Johnson ed., (exh. cat., San Francisco, Intersections Center for Religion and the Arts, 1968), San Francisco, 1968.
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– Smith, 1995: Richard Cándida Smith, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California, Berkeley, 1995.
– Solnit, 1982: Rebecca Solnit, Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era, San Francisco, 1982.
– Southern California Assemblage, 1986: Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present, Elena Siff ed., (exh. cat., Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1986), Santa Barbara, 1986.
– Spirit into Matter…, 2004: Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske, Julian Cox ed., (exh. cat., Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), Los Angeles, 2004.
– Thompson, 1984: Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, New York, 1984.
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– Translations, Salvages, Paste-Ups…, 1977: Translations, Salvages, Paste-Ups by Jess, Robert R. Murdock ed., (exh. cat., Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1977), Dallas, 1977.
– Turning the Tide, 1990: Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1956, Paul J. Karlstrom, Susan Ehrlich eds., (exh. cat., Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990), Santa Barbara, 1990.
– Wallace Berman, 1978: Wallace Berman: Retrospective, Hal Glicksman ed., (exh. cat., Los Angeles, Otis Art Institute Gallery, 1978), Los Angeles, 1978.
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– Wally Hedrick, 1985: Wally Hedrick: Selected Works, David S. Rubin ed., (exh. cat., San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, 1985), San Francisco, 1985.
– West Coast…, 1969: West Coast, 1945-1969, John Coplans ed., (exh. cat., Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1969), Pasadena, 1969.
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– Whaley, 2004: Preston Whaley Jr., Blows Like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture, Cambridge, 2004.