A life on the first waves of radical bohemianism in San Francisco
By: 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,
Contributors: Rainer, Ivan, 1931-; Zabin, Belle, 1922-; Goodfriend, Audrey, 1920-; Triest, Sara Hart, 1950-; Stern, Radha Lisa, 1954; Stern, Gerd.; Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1997
Subjects: Podesta, Alfred.; Triest, Frank, d. 1987.; Buck, Jane Hamner.; Bohemianism -- California -- San Francisco.; Anarchists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Artists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Art, American -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: 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.