On the frog and toad in the UK
| October 28th, 2008
The mainstream artifact of the Beat Generation—the typewritten continuous paper scroll of Jack Kerouac’s seminal On the Road—will very soon be jumping the Atlantic for a stay at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham from Dec. 3 through Jan. 28.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of the novel in the United Kingdom, Jack Kerouac: Back ‘On the Road’ opens on Wednesday 3 December and continues until 28 January 2009. It is curated by Professor Richard Ellis, of the University’s Department of American and Canadian Studies, in collaboration with its Research and Cultural Collections.
The exhibition, which is supported financially by the University of Birmingham, its US Alumni Fund and by Waterstones, is accompanied by catalogue, a two-day academic conference, and other public events including gallery talks, poetry readings and workshops. For further details of the conference and events, visit the Universrity of Birmingam and Barber.
