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Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction / Gabrielle Selz

Catalog Data

Author:
Selz, Gabrielle  Search this
Subject:
Selz, Peter 1919-  Search this
Physical description:
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2014
Contents:
New images -- On and off the wall -- The fourth wall -- Entering history
Summary:
The daughter of the curator at the New York Museum of Modern Art describes her childhood growing up amidst the glamorous gallery openings and celebrated artists including Rothko, Tinguely and Christo and the toll it took on her family.
"Weaving her family narrative into the larger story of twentieth-century art and culture, Selz paints [a] ... portrait of her charismatic father--the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and director of his own art museum in California]-- ... the generation of modern artists he championed, and the daughter whose life he shaped"--Dust jacket flap.
Topic:
Art historians  Search this
Art critics  Search this
Art museum curators  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1032963