Interviews for the book Secret exhibition [sound recording]. ca. 1984-1988.

Meltzer, David J.

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Poet. From the description of Papers, 1954-1974. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49381183 From the description of Letters, 1969-1970. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49254186 American poet. From the description of Song : signed typescript, [196-] / David Meltzer. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423138 Lionel David Meltzer, 1937-, is an American poet and musician. He is considered one of the key po...

McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Brown, Jean, 1911-1994

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Jean Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, 20 December 1911. Her father, Irving Levy, was a rare book dealer. During the Depression Brown worked in a library in Springfield, Massachusetts where she was trained in library cataloging. Brown amassed a significant and rich body of materials by many of the most influential and challenging artists of the 20th century. The initial inspiration for the collection was provided by Dada painters and poets: an anthology, 1951, edited by Robert Motherwell....

Stockwell, Dean, 1938-

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Herms, George, 1935-

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George Herms, California artist, musician, and poet, was one of the founders of the West Coast assemblage movement. From the description of George Herms papers, 1890-2009 ( bulk 1960-2000) (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 668457005 Herms, George, 1935, Assemblage and collage artist of Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif. Central participant in the West Coast Beat culture. From the description of Oral history interview with...

Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005

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American poet. From the description of Cool ; New York blank poem New York ; [typed letter signed, to LeRoi Jones] : typescripts, 1959 / Philip Lamantia. 1959. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423222 ...

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

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Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Bruce Conner spent his childhood and young adulthood in nearby Wichita. Upon graduating from Wichita High School East, Conner went on to study art at Wichita University and University of Nebraska, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean Sandstedt. He continued art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, at the urging of his childhood friend, the poet Michael McClure, and attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene tha...

Hedrick, Wally, 1928-2003

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Painter and sculptor; San Geronimo, Calif.; d. Dec. 17, 2003 at age 75. From the description of Wally Hedrick papers, 1954-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557095 Wally Hedrick (1928-2003) was a sculptor and painter from San Geronimo, Calif. Grew up in Pasadena, Calif. Active in the Funk movement and the Beat Era in San Francisco. Developed the concept of "junk art." From the description of Oral history interview with Wally Hedrick...

Conner, Jean

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DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989

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Artist Mary Joan (Jay) DeFeo was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1929 and moved with her family to the San Francisco Bay Area at age three. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Fine Arts at UC Berkeley and won a fellowship after graduation that took her to France, Spain, northern Africa and Italy. In Florence she met artist Clinton Hill, with whom she developed a lasting friendship. In the mid-1950s DeFeo settled in San Francisco and met regularly with Beat poets and artists including Joan and Wil...

Jess, 1923-2004

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Jess, American visual artist, was born Burgess Collins on August 6, 1923 in Long Beach, California. Jess was educated as a chemist at the California Institute of Technology. Disillusioned with his scientific career, in 1949 he enrolled in the California School of the Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and began referring to himself as "Jess". He met Robert Duncan in 1951 and maintained a relationship with the poet that lasted until Duncan's death in 1988. George ...

Solnit, Rebecca.

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Punk Culture at its height in the late 1970s to early 1980s, was a movement against the corporate establishment and was mostly seen in music, clothing, and hairstyles. Rebecca Solnit is a writer, art critic, museum exhibition curator, and political activist. From the description of Rebecca Solnit collection of punk ephemera, [ca. 1977-1984]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 85029437 ...

McClure, Joanna

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Berman, Shirley, 1930-

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Jordan, Larry, 1934-

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Larry Jordan, 1934-, filmmaker and collagist of Petaluma, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Larry Jordan, 1995 Dec. 19 - 1996 July 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80691370 ...