Unstill life
Subtitle: a daughter's memoir of art and love in the age of abstraction
By: Gabrielle Selz
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780393239171
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Art museum curators; Art critics; Biography; Art historians
Description: "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 (pages 347-351).