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• Title:Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction / Gabrielle Selz.
  
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• Author/Creator:Selz, Gabrielle.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7483.S383 S45 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Selz, Peter, 1919-2019.
  Art historians--United States--Biography.
  Art critics--United States--Biography.
  Art museum curators--United States--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780393239171 (hardcover)
  0393239179 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One New Images
  pt. Two On and Off the Wall
  pt. Three Fourth Wall
  pt. Four Entering History.