Peter Selz

Sketches of a Life in Art
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-26935-4
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 321 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: University of California Press

This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates key historical and cultural events of the twentieth-century as he describes Selz's extraordinary career--from Chicago's Institute of Design (New Bauhaus), to New York's Museum of Modern Art during the transformative 1960s, and as founding director of the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. Karlstrom sheds light on the controversial viewpoints that at times isolated Selz from his colleagues but nonetheless affirmed his conviction that significant art was always an expression of deep human experience. The book also links Selz's long life story--featuring close relationships with such major art figures as Mark Rothko, Dore Ashton, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, and Christo--with his personal commitment to political engagement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karlstrom, Paul J.

Karlstrom, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Setting the Scene

1. Childhood: Munich, Art, and Hitler

2. New York: Stieglitz, Rheingold, and 57th Street

3. Chicago to Pomona: New Bauhaus and Early Career

4. Back to New York: Inside MoMA

5. MoMA Exhibitions: From New Images of Man to Alberto Giacometti

6. POP Goes the Art World: Departure from New York

7. Berkeley: Politics, Funk, Sex, and Finances

8. Students, Colleagues, and Controversy

9. A Career in Retirement: Returning to Early Themes and Passions

10. A Conclusion: Looking at Kentridge and Warhol

Notes

Selected Bibliography and Exhibition History

Acknowledgments

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karlstrom, Paul J.
<b>Paul J. Karlstrom</b>, former West Coast Regional Director of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, is the editor of On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950 (UC Press) and a co-editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1860-1970. He is coauthor of Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1956 and author of Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence.