Peter Selz (55 page)

—characteristics: adaptability,
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; atheism,
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; creative life force,
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; curiosity,
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; deficit in empathy for others,
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; ego,
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; energy and empathy,
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,
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; enthusiasm for art,
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,
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; generosity and inclusiveness,
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; level of control,
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; loyalty to art and artists,
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,
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,
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; moral principles,
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; music preferences,
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; naïveté,
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; natural storyteller,
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,
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; openness,
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; pet peeve,
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; self-identity created,
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; social conscience,
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; summarized,
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.
See also
art and politics connections; love and sexuality

—exhibitions.
See
exhibitions

—life: automobile of,
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; birth and early childhood,
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,
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,
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; brewery work,
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; daughters (
see
Selz, Gabrielle; Selz, Tanya); education, university-level,
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; education and
youth activities in Munich,
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; education in N.Y.C.,
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; existentialist interests,
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,
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; family home and issues in New York years,
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; Fulbright research in Paris,
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; grandchildren,
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; immigration to U.S.,
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; military service,
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; outdoor activities,
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; personal appearance,
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; Regal Road home,
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; Rosa (childhood nanny),
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; spoken voice,
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; step-children (grown),
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; U.S. citizenship,
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.
See also
art and politics connections; “living the art life”; love and sexuality

—works:
Art in Our Times
,
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;
Barbara Chase-Riboud
(book and exhibition),
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,
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;
Beyond the Mainstream
,
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,
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,
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–
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; “Modernism Comes to Chicago” (Selz),
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;
Nathan Oliveira
,
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,
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; Rilke translations,
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;
Sam Francis
,
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,
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; “The Stars and Stripes” (Selz),
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–
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. See also
Art of Engagement
;
German Expressionist Painting

—writing: Andersen's writing compared with,
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; German scholarship as influence on,
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; making time for,
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,
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; residency for Lindner catalogue writing,
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; Selz's voice in,
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; struggle to find verbal language for nonverbal works,
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; syncretizing subjects in,
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; theoretical foundation limited,
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Selz, Tanya (daughter): birth of,
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; early relationship with parents,
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; illustration of,
Fig. 13
;
Peter's relationship with,
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,
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Selz, Thalia (Cheronis) (first wife): career of,
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; family home and issues in New York years,
Fig. 13
,
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; illness and death of,
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; at
Jean Tinguely
exhibition,
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; marriage of,
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,
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,
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,
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; on MoMA job,
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; in Paris with Peter,
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; in Pomona's milieu,
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; reconciliation attempts and,
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; taped conversations with Peter and,
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Selz, Thomas (nephew),
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Selz, Trudy (Wertheimer) (sister-in-law),
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Serra, Richard,
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SFMOMA.
See
San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [SFMOMA])

Shaiken, Harley,
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Shaw, Elizabeth,
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Shaw, Richard,
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Sheets, Millard,
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Sheppard, Carl,
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Sherk, Bonnie,
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Simon, Norton,
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Simson, Otto Georg von,
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Sinsabaugh, Art,
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Siskind, Aaron,
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Sixteen Americans
(exhibition),
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Slant Step show,
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Slive, Seymour,
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Smith, David,
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Smith, Donna,
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Smith, Hassel,
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Smith, Roberta,
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Smith-Andersen Gallery.
See
Kirkeby, Paula

Smithsonian American Art Museum,
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Snyder, Gary,
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Soby, James Thrall,
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Société Anonyme,
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Society for Art, Religion, and Culture (ARC),
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Society for Art Publications of the Americas,
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Solomon, Alan,
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Southern California Art Historians,
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Southern California art scene: Hard Edge painting recognized in,
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; ignored by New York art scene,
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,
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; immersion in,
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; later association with galleries in,
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; Pomona's milieu in,
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; ultrareactionary art views and responses to,
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.
See also
Los Angeles; Pomona College

Spafford, Michael,
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,
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Spiegel, Norma,
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.
See also
Selz, Norma (second wife)

Sprengel, Bernhard,
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Staempfli, George,
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Stamos, Theodoros,
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Starr, Kevin,
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“Stars and Stripes, The” (Selz),
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Steinberg, Leo,
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Steinitz, Beate (“Batz”),
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Steinitz, Kate,
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Stella, Frank,
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Stewart, Andrew,
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Stich, Sidra,
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Stieglitz, Alfred,
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Stieglitz Circle
(exhibition),
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Stiles, Kristine: role in Selz's publications,
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; on Selz as teacher,
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St. Louis (Mo.): Max Beckmann exhibition in,
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St. Louis University, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art,
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Stockhausen, Karlheinz,
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Stravinsky, Igor,
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students: California bohemian lifestyle and,
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; females as,
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; as (later) museum directors,
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; long-term relationships with,
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; making time for,
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,
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; on Selz as teacher,
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; Selz's appeal to,
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,
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; on Selz's openness,
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; on Selz's style,
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; Sheets's reactionary vs. Selz's modernist ideas about art and,
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; theological seminary students as,
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.
See also
teaching

Stuttgart (Germany): architecture of,
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Sullivan, Mary,
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Surrealism: in BAM collection,
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; contact with artists in,
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,
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; figuration after,
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,
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; Giacometti's work in,
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; Peggy Guggenheim's collection of,
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; in
New Americans
exhibition,
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; scholarship on,
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,
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Symbolism: Art Nouveau and,
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; exhibition of,
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; Oliveira and,
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; Rothko's work in context of,
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Symposium on Pop Art, A
(MoMA),
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Sypher, Wylie,
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Tasende Gallery,
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Taylor, Joshua,
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teaching: in Chicago,
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; on living fully in relation to art,
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; making time for,
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; on museum work and art history,
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; nontheoretical vs. traditional approaches in,
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; object-oriented and artist-focused approach to,
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; students' reflections on,
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; teaching assistant in,
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; tenured position in,
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See also
students

Temko, Alan,
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Temko, Becky,
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Temple of Man (gathering place),
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Thiebaud, Wayne,
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Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista,
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Tillich, Paul: on art and the spiritual,
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; background of,
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; preface to catalogue for
New Images of Man
,
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Tillim, Sidney,
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