Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction / Gabrielle Selz.
Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction / Gabrielle Selz.
Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction / Gabrielle Selz.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Call Numbers
G 2015/1259
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
New images -- On and off the wall -- The fourth wall -- Entering history.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
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...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Unstill life : a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction / Gabrielle Selz.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Call Numbers
G 2015/1259
Record Identifier
74VKO42WE5LX
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO42WE5LX
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ISBN
0393239179 (hardcover)
9780393239171 (hardcover)
DDC
708.0092
MMS ID
991022618629702626
