Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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.
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"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.
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