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.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
San Francisco Renaissance canonical	44
San Francisco Renaissance poets	4
San Francisco Renaissance (visual arts)	1
San Francisco Renaissance poetry	1
San Francisco Renaissance poetry scene	1
San Francisco counterculture	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
contemporaryWith	Black Mountain poets ⓘ Confessional poetry ⓘ surface form: Confessional poetry movement New York School ⓘ surface form: New York School (poetry)
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Black Mountain poets ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ surface form: Kenneth Rexroth Kirby Doyle ⓘ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ Lew Welch ⓘ Madeline Gleason ⓘ Gary Snyder ⓘ surface form: 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, United States ⓘ surface form: California San Francisco ⓘ
movementInfluencedBy	Buddhism ⓘ Imagism ⓘ surface form: Objectivist poetry Romanticism ⓘ anarchism ⓘ imagism ⓘ jazz ⓘ modernism ⓘ surrealism ⓘ
partOf	American literature ⓘ postwar American avant-garde ⓘ
timePeriod	mid-20th century ⓘ

Referenced by (52)

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Beat Generation → relatedConcept → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

City Lights Bookstore → associatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Ralph Stackpole → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: San Francisco Renaissance (visual arts)

Black Mountain poets → relatedMovement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Lawrence Ferlinghetti → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Gary Snyder → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

City Lights Publishers → associatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Sunflower Sutra → associatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Part II → associatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Part II (section of "Howl")

Six Gallery, San Francisco → influence → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Jack Spicer → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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Helen Adam → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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Six Gallery → movementAssociatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Pictures of the Gone World → literaryMovement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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this entity surface form: San Francisco Renaissance poetry

New American Poetry → hasPart → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: San Francisco Renaissance poets

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Philip Lamantia → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Robert Duncan → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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James Broughton → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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this entity surface form: San Francisco counterculture

James Broughton → associatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Philip Whalen → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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this entity surface form: San Francisco Renaissance poetry scene

Lew Welch → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Robin Blaser → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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Starting from San Francisco → literaryMovement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Her → associatedWith → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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subject surface form: Gregory Corso

Madeline Gleason → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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Ruth Witt-Diamant → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

Kirby Doyle → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ

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George Stanley → movement → San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ