{"id":114,"date":"2019-10-09T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:46:39","slug":"ted-joans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/home\/ted-joans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Joans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted Joans<br><strong>Afrodisia: New Poems<\/strong>, 1970<br>Hill &amp; Wang, New York. Inscribed by the author. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted Joans<br><strong>Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems<\/strong>, 1969<br>Hill &amp; Wang, New York. Inscribed by the author. <br>Richard Hoffman Collection.<br>With facsimile of inscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A self-styled \u201cSurrealist jazz poet\u201d known for his spoken word performances and freeform collaborations with jazz musicians, Ted Joans was a fixture in the New York poetry scene before spending time in Paris and, later, Africa. One-time roommate of saxophonist Charlie Parker and close personally to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and especially Jack Kerouac, he represents a unique bridge between the Beat aesthetic, jazz culture, European Surrealism, and Pan-Africanism. On Kerouac\u2019s death in 1969, he wrote a tribute entitled \u201cThe Wild Spirit of Kicks,\u201d in which he memorably called Kerouac \u201cTHE FUEL OF A GENERATION.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted Joans (American, 1928 \u2013 2003)<br><strong>Ted Joans Reading His own Jazz Poetry and Surrealism, Cedar Bar<\/strong>, 1960s<br>printed collage on paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted Joans was a prolific collage artist. This poster from the mid-1960s announcing his poetry reading at the Cedar Bar in lower Manhattan shows his sophisticated understanding of Dada and Surrealist montage. Joans was friends with the Surrealist assemblage artist Joseph Cornell and was embraced by the French founder of Surrealism, Andr\u00e9 Breton. Joans\u2019s early book of collages, <em>The Hipsters<\/em> (1961), shows clear inspiration from Max Ernst, applied to the downtown Beat scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Ted JoansAfrodisia: New Poems, 1970Hill &amp; Wang, New York. Inscribed by the author. [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Ted JoansBlack Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems, 1969Hill &amp; Wang, New York. Inscribed by the author. Richard Hoffman Collection.With facsimile of inscription. A self-styled \u201cSurrealist jazz poet\u201d known for his spoken word performances and freeform collaborations with jazz musicians, Ted Joans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/1137"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}