Retrievals

Description:

"Retrievals is a collection of criticism about underrecognized poets, unfairly discredited critics, artists obscured by more famous relations—basically, writers and artists that have fallen off the cultural map or never quite made it there in the first place. These essays, collected for the first time, span 10 years of Garrett Caples’ writing as an arts journalist and editor at City Lights. His encyclopedic knowledge of surrealism, art history, and Bay Area artists together with candid and tender anecdotes give his writing a humble charm not often found in works of criticism."--

subjects: American Art,  History and criticism,  6 Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.),  City Lights Books,  Criticism and interpretation,  American poetry,  Essays (single author),  LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,  "6" Gallery

People: Philip Lamantia (1927-2005),  Roger Fry (1866-1934),  Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920),  Sotère Torregian (1941-),  John Anderson (1932-2011),  Richard Tagett,  Marie Wilson,  Jean Conner,  Victor Segalen (1878-1919),  Barbara Guest,  James Guetti (1937-2007),  John Hoffman,  André Breton (1896-1966),  Sylvia Fein,  Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931),  Jimmy Ernst (1920-1984),  Alden Van Buskirk,  Gordon Onslow-Ford,  Richard O. Moore,  Pamela Colman Smith

Times: 20th century,  21st century