Unstill life, a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction, Gabrielle Selz
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Unstill life, a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction, Gabrielle Selz
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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individual biography
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illustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
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Unstill life
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bibliography
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862222218
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Gabrielle Selz
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a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction
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
Table Of Contents
New images -- On and off the wall -- The fourth wall -- Entering history
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