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Title:

A life on the first waves of radical bohemianism in San Francisco : oral history transcript / 1997

Creator/Contributor:

Triest, Shirley Staschen, 1914-1995, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Rainer, Ivan, 1931-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Zabin, Belle, 1922-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Goodfriend, Audrey, 1920-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Triest, Sara Hart, 1950-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Stern, Radha Lisa, 1954, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Stern, Gerd Jacob, 1928-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Early years in Burlingame, California, 1914-1933; marriage to Valentine Julien and early bohemian life in San Francisco, 1930s; the WPA, Diego Rivera, and the Coit Tower murals, 1933-1935; Montgomery Street (Monkey Block), 1930s; San Francisco pacifist anarchists, 1935-1939; marriage to Alfred Podesta and birth of son Michael Podesta, 1939-1944; Kenneth Rexroth, Frank Triest, and Lawrentian women; marriage to Frank Triest and birth of son Carl and twins Sara and Lawrence, 1948-1950s; Bodega Head anti-nuclear campaign, 1960s; the Gurdjieff Society, 1970s; California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute, social realism, Sumi-e, 1920s-1980s; Jane Hamner Buck, 1940-1975. Includes interviews with San Francisco anarchists Ivan Rainer and Belle Zabin, and Audrey Goodfriend; Triest's daughter Sara Triest; Hamner Buck's daughter Radha Stern; and Hamner Buck's second husband Gerd Stern.

Date:

1997 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Bohemianism -- California -- San Francisco
Anarchists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
Artists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Vie de bohème -- Californie -- San Francisco
Anarchistes -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Entretiens
Artistes -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Entretiens
Art -- 20e siècle
Bohemianism
Artists
Art, Modern
Anarchists
California -- San Francisco
Podesta, Alfred
Triest, Frank -- -1987
Buck, Jane Hamner
Buck, Jane Hamner

Note:

Shirley Staschen Triest ; with an introduction by Yvonne Rainer. Interviews conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1995 and 1996. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Classified as Phonotape 2956 C:1-18.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

biography
Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volume (ix, 333 pages) : portrait, facsimiles ; 28 cm
18 audiocassettes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Item:

Life on the first waves of radical bohemianism in San Francisco : oral history transcript 1997 : Triest, Shirley Staschen, 1914-1995. : (OCoLC)1085936092