Retrievals
By: Garrett Caples
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781933517995; 9781933517988
Subjects: American Art; History and criticism; 6 Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.); City Lights Books; Criticism and interpretation; American poetry
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."--
Notes: Essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Wittgenstein, a memoir; title: A man of firsts: Arthur Jerome Eddy; title: Pamela Colman Smith at the Dawn of Modernism; title: The exotic Victor Segalen; title: Roger Fry and the invention of art history; title: Vachel Lindsay with the submerged; title: Surrealism's island: Martinique; title: Gordon Onslow Ford: cosmos and death; title: Surrealism and the abstract truth; title: A footnote on Jimmy Ernst; title: Sylvia Fein and the death of the white knight; title: Philip Lamantia and André Breton; title: Mysteries of the Six Gallery: Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman; title: Apparitions of Marie Wilson at City Lights; title: Barbara Guest in the shadow of surrealism; title: Circles: Richard Tagett and Richard O. Moore; title: Becoming visible: Jean Conner; title: "Death will be my final lover": the life of Alden Van Buskirk; title: The incorrigible Torregian; title: John Anderson, master; title: The Hyphy hump; title: Theory of retrieval.