In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and
her sister moved to New York, where her father, Peter Selz, would
begin his job as the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the
Museum of Modern Art. What followed was a whirlwind childhood spent
among art and artists in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.
Gabrielle grew up in a home full of the most celebrated artists of
the day: Rothko, de Kooning, Tinguely, Giacometti, and Christo,
among others.
Poignant and candid, Unstill Life is a daughter s memoir of the
art world and a larger-than-life father known to the world as Mr.
Modern Art. Selz offers a unique window into the glamour and
destruction of the times: the gallery openings, wild parties and
affairs that defined one of the most celebrated periods in American
art history. Like the art he loved, Selz s father was vibrant and
freewheeling, but his enthusiasm for both women and art took its
toll on family life. When her father left MoMA and his family to
direct his own museum in California, marrying four more times, Selz
s mother, the writer Thalia Selz, moved with her children into the
utopian artist community Westbeth. Her parents continued a
tumultuous affair that would last forty years.
Weaving her family narrative into the larger story of
twentieth-century art and culture, Selz paints an unforgettable
portrait of a charismatic man, the generation of modern artists he
championed and the daughter whose life he shaped."
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