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Oral history interview with Peter Howard Selz

Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Peter Howard Selz, 1999 November 3, Transcript
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Object Details

sova.aaa.selz99
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cdda5c99-d6a9-4f49-8bb2-04df7b9e51af
General
Originally recorded 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 1 min.
Interviewee
Selz, Peter Howard, 1919-2019
Interviewer
Karlstrom, Paul J.
Occupation
Art historians -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Topic
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Provenance
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Interviewee
Selz, Peter Howard, 1919-2019
Interviewer
Karlstrom, Paul J.
Sponsor
Funding for this interview was provided by the Richard Baker Fund. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Biographical / Historical
Peter Howard Selz (1919-2019 ) was a curator and art historian from Berkeley, California.
Extent
25 Pages (Transcript)
Date
1999 November 3
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.selz99
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Existence and Location of Copies
Transcript available on line
Genre/Form
Sound recordings
Interviews
Scope and Contents
An interview of Peter Selz conducted 1999 November 3, by Paul J. Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Selz's home, Berkeley, California.
This interview was conducted at Selz's request to provide a narrative conversation for a catalogue to accompany "Cross-Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz," an exhibition at Achim Moeller Gallery in New York City, February 2 to March 3, 2000.
The interview focused on Selz's career as an art historian, and on the subject of modernism, with particular attention to Selz's writings and the many exhibitions in which less familiar artists (German Expressionists, Klimt, Schiele, Californians, Leon Golub, other figurative painters) and even movements (Art Nouveau, Futurism, Exhibition Momentum, Funk) were introduced. Selz discussed teaching at Moholy-Nagy's New Bauhaus in Chicago; his divergent ideas from more typical mainstream thinking about modernism primarily in formalist terms; his views on and understanding of modern art through his teaching and as a museum curator (Museum of Modern Art, NYC) and director (University Art Museum, Berkeley).
Restrictions
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
AAA.selz99
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cdda5c99-d6a9-4f49-8bb2-04df7b9e51af
AAA.selz99
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Record ID
ebl-1596380434733-1596380434737-0
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