Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art

by Paul J. Karlstrom

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520269357
• ISBN13: 9780520269354
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"