ABSTRACT
How best can we speak of a Norwegian Beat tradition? To take soundings one needs to step back into the larger history of Norwegian modernism and the avant-garde, with Oslo as its operative center. This account proposes that poets like Jan Erik Vold, Kate Næss, and Axel Jensen, and visual artists like Willibald Storn, Marius Heyerdahl, and Kjartan Slettemark give grounds for thinking that Beat had its Norwegian manifestation not just in one domain of the arts but in several.
