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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Jess

Posted inArt

Two West Coast Art Communities Outside the Mainstream

by John Yau August 21, 2021August 20, 2021

One thing seems pretty clear about both groups: they separated themselves from mainstream culture, including the art world. This is practically unheard of today.

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Looking at the Legacy of Jess in California

by Clayton Schuster September 4, 2019

An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art positions the artist known as Jess as the center of a creative nexus, bringing together his works with a smattering of California artists.

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Jess, a West Coast Visionary

by John Yau August 24, 2019September 6, 2019

It is clear to me now that seeing Jess’s art was the beginning of my awareness that there was a multitude of what John Ashbery called “other traditions.”

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The Once-Mystical Energy of San Francisco’s Art and Poetry Scene

by Nathan Gelgud April 17, 2019April 17, 2019

Revisiting the work of Jess, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who just turned 100 years old.

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Enamored Magicians: The Hermetic World of Jess and Robert Duncan

by Christopher Lyon February 8, 2014February 11, 2014

An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle presents a slice of the rich Northern California art world of the postwar years. Much of what is here is not “gallery art,” in a commercial sense, but art created by and for a small community of friends, colleagues, and lovers, rooted in a specific place and cultural moment.

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Rediscovering the 1950s Art Scene of San Francisco

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 22, 2014January 27, 2014

Back in the 1950s in the Bay Area, the center for creatives a little off the trail in experimental art was a Victorian house packed to its wooden walls with books. As the home of Jess and Robert Duncan, a couple where within their own relationship there was a constant collaboration between visual art and writing, it became one of the magnets for an eclectic group of artists.

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