Download or read book Peter Selz written by Paul J. Karlstrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz’s own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler’s Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates key historical and cultural events of the twentieth-century as he describes Selz’s extraordinary career—from Chicago’s Institute of Design (New Bauhaus), to New York’s Museum of Modern Art during the transformative 1960s, and as founding director of the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. Karlstrom sheds light on the controversial viewpoints that at times isolated Selz from his colleagues but nonetheless affirmed his conviction that significant art was always an expression of deep human experience. The book also links Selz’s long life story—featuring close relationships with such major art figures as Mark Rothko, Dore Ashton, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, and Christo—with his personal commitment to political engagement.
Download or read book German Expressionist Painting written by Peter Selz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1957, German Expressionist Painting was the first comprehensive study of one of the most pivotal movements in the art of this century. When it was written, however, German Expressionism seemed like an eccentric manifestation far removed from what was then considered the mainstream of modern art. But as historians well know, each generation alters the concept of mainstream to encompass those aspects of the past which seem most relevant to the present. The impact of German Expressionism on the art and thought of later generations could never have been anticipated at the time of the original writing of this book. During the subsequent years an enormous body of scholarly research and an even larger number of popular books on German expressionist art has been printed. Numerous monographs and detailed studies on most of the artists exist now and countless exhibitions with accompanying catalogues have taken place. Much of this new research could have been incorporated in a revised edition and the bibliography certainly could have been greatly expanded to include the important writings which have been published in Germany, the United States and elsewhere since this book was originally issued. The author, however, was faced with the choice of reprinting the original text with only the most necessary alterations-such as updating the captions to indicate present locations of the paintings-or the preparation of a revised text and bibliography. Desirable as a revision appeared, present printing costs would have priced the paperback out of reach for students. It is for this reason that I decided to reissue the original text which stands on its own as a primary investigation of German Expressionist Painting.
Download or read book Art of Engagement written by Peter Selz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.
Download or read book Peter Selz written by Paul J. Karlstrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography traces the life of modern art historian Peter Selz.
Download or read book Light on Fire written by Gabrielle Selz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life. Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Based on Gabrielle Selz’s unprecedented access to Francis’s files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents; his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofits. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the “visionary reconstruction of art history,” defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life.
Download or read book NEW IMAGES OF MAN written by PETER. SELZ and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theories of Modern Art written by Herschel Browning Chipp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Mainstream written by Peter Selz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of essays by a prominent art historian, critic and curator of modern art examines the art and artists of the twentieth century who have operated outside the established art world. In a lucid and accessible style, Peter Selz explores modern art as it is reflected, and has had an impact on, the tremendous transformations of politics and culture, both in the United States and in Europe. An authoritative overview of a neglected phenomenon, his essays explore the complex relationship between art at the periphery and art at the putative center, and how marginal art has affected that of the mainstream.
Download or read book Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art written by Kristine Stiles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth. u. a.: S. 74: Concrete art (1936-49) / Max Bill. - S. 74-77: The mathematical approach in contemporary art (1949) / Max Bill. - S. 301-304: Dieter Roth.
Download or read book Art in Our Times written by Peter Selz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1981 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed survey of the development of world architecture, sculpture, and painting from the turn of the century to the 1970's.
Download or read book Barbara Chase Riboud Sculptor written by Peter Selz and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive overview of Chase-Ribound's 30-year career as a sculptor & draftsman. Distinguished art historians Peter Selz & Anthony F. Janson show how history, archaeology, spiritualism, the Baroque tradition, & Chase-Riboud's parallel career as a poet-novelist have influenced her work, from the Malcolm X, Tantra, Zanzibar, & Cleopatra series to her recent monument "Africa Rising."
Download or read book At Vitoria written by Marcia Riman Selz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a medieval Jewish cemetery cause so much debate? At Vitoria transports the reader from 1950s Bayonne, France back to medieval Spain and weaves a story of success, love, terror, tragedy, shame, and honor. The historical and cultural details make for an evocative narrative that draw the reader in and provide an engaging sense of realism. At Vitoria introduces the reader to the CREVAGOS, a Jewish family that copes with adversity and trauma in the midst of joy and daily needs, while living under the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition. Hard work, intelligence and clever spirit create a family of survivors. At Vitoria is also the story of how, in 1492 when Jews are expelled from Spain, the Christians of Vitoria, grateful to Jewish physicians for saving lives, take an oath to preserve the Jewish cemetery. Almost 500 years later, this promise draws raw emotions from both Christians and Jews. At Vitoria is a heart wrenching, but ultimately heart-warming read, with a life-affirming message. It is sure to cause smiles, tears, and renewed pride in humanity.
Download or read book William Congdon written by Peter Selz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jerome Kirk written by Nori Nisbet and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Kirk has been carrying on this 20th Century tradition with meticulous skill and elegant grace. An engineer by training and artist by volition, he has been fashioning sculptures which consist of spheres, spirals, disks and cylinders, which move in free wave forms, in complex moire patterns and in clearly defined patterns.
Download or read book Raimonds Staprans written by Paul J. Karlstrom and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947 the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for the past half century the artist and playwright has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence, Paul Karlstrom investigates the realism and abstraction in Staprans's work, focusing on the more edgy and self-revealing paintings by bringing the artist's life experience and personal psychology prominently into the equation. Karlstrom recognizes that the meaning of Staprans's work cannot be understood solely in terms of the painterly skill and aesthetic beauty that characterize the landscapes, marines, and still lifes. Neither can it be fully appreciated in the minimalist abstraction with which Staprans qualifies his realism. Rather, the key to understanding is hidden in the secret life and philosophical preoccupation that emerged in the author's interviews with the artist.Two prominent writers provide brief essays dealing with Staprans as a "trans-Atlanticist": Latvian cultural critic Helena Demakova brings the perspective of the artist's native country to his American émigré story. American art historian Peter Selz examines realism's rich modernist potential in Staprans and other artists who have pushed realism to discover new conceptual and aesthetic truths.Staprans is also a writer, known in Latvia mainly for his work for the stage, and excerpts from his writings provide insight into his painting.
Download or read book The Art of Peter Max written by Charles A. Riley and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers the artist's paintings, drawings, graphics, etchings, and posters to illustrate his life and career.
