: a person who participated in a social movement of the 1950s and early 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional society
broadly
: a usually young and artistic person who rejects the mores of conventional society
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However, her topless form is showcased in a sculpture that a fellow beatnik/hippie artist, played by Charles Bronson, is working on in her beach shack, when Burton’s Edward comes to call.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
Along the way, Ochs also acquired more than 100,000 negatives shot by beatnik photographer Earl Leaf, the house man for The Beach Boys, as well as other collections from photographers Don Paulsen and Richard Creamer and magazines including Hit Parader, Tiger Beat and Rona Barrett’s Hollywood.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
One dresses like a beatnik gymnast; the other like a Romanian fortune teller.
—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
The clothes evoked ’60s beatniks, countercultural girls in sweaterdresses, smartly dressed officers in uniform, and naval ratings in sailor pants—looks that ran up and down the register of the cool, the hip, and the immaculately classic….
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
Along the way, Ochs also acquired more than 100,000 negatives shot by beatnik photographer Earl Leaf, the house man for The Beach Boys, as well as other collections from photographers Don Paulsen and Richard Creamer and magazines including Hit Parader, Tiger Beat and Rona Barrett’s Hollywood.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
One dresses like a beatnik gymnast; the other like a Romanian fortune teller.
—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
The clothes evoked ’60s beatniks, countercultural girls in sweaterdresses, smartly dressed officers in uniform, and naval ratings in sailor pants—looks that ran up and down the register of the cool, the hip, and the immaculately classic….
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Beatnik.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beatnik. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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