San Francisco Renaissance

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artistic movement literary movement

The San Francisco Renaissance was a mid-20th-century literary and artistic movement centered in San Francisco that helped spark postwar American avant-garde poetry and laid the groundwork for the Beat Generation.

Aliases (1)

San Francisco Renaissance (visual arts) ×1

Statements (80)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic movement → literary movement →
contemporaryWith	Black Mountain poets → Confessional poetry movement → New York School (poetry) →
country	United States →
field	film → literature → performance → poetry → visual arts →
hasCenter	Berkeley poetry scene → City Lights Bookstore → San Francisco State College poetry scene → Six Gallery →
hasCharacteristic	LGBTQ representation → anti-academic stance → collaborative community → countercultural politics → experimental form → oral performance emphasis → sexual frankness → small-press publishing → spiritual and mystical themes → urban West Coast setting →
hasEndTime	1960s →
hasEvent	First Festival of Modern Poetry → Six Gallery reading →
hasLanguage	English →
hasNotableWork	After Lorca → Howl → Pictures of the Gone World → The Maximus Poems (early West Coast reception) → The Opening of the Field →
hasParticipant	Allen Ginsberg → Berkeley Renaissance poets → Bob Kaufman → David Meltzer → Denise Levertov → Gary Snyder → George Stanley → Gregory Corso → Harold Norse → Helen Adam → Jack Kerouac → Jack Spicer → James Broughton → Kenneth Rexroth → Kirby Doyle → Lawrence Ferlinghetti → Lew Welch → Madeline Gleason → Michael McClure → Peter Orlovsky → Philip Lamantia → Philip Whalen → Robert Creeley → Robert Duncan → Robert Duncan–Jack Spicer circle → Robin Blaser → Ruth Witt-Diamant → Six Gallery poets → William Everson →
hasStartTime	1940s →
influenced	American avant-garde poetry → Beat Generation → Beat poetry →
locatedIn	California → San Francisco →
movementInfluencedBy	Buddhism → Objectivist poetry → Romanticism → anarchism → imagism → jazz → modernism → surrealism →
partOf	American literature → postwar American avant-garde →
timePeriod	mid-20th century →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gary Snyder → Lawrence Ferlinghetti → Ralph Stackpole ("San Francisco Renaissance (visual arts)") →	movement
City Lights Bookstore →	associatedWith
Beat Generation →	relatedConcept
Black Mountain poets →	relatedMovement