PETER SELZ

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 De sign (New Bauhaus), to New York's Museum of Modern Art during the transformative 1960s, and as founding director of the University A rt Museu...[Read more]