Word: selz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young who have already bolted the establishment, the Metropolitan's show may represent another irrelevant exercise in self-aggrandizement for what goes in the marketplace. Peter Selz, director of Berkeley's University Art Museum, observes: "Today's young artists reject pure color paintings as establishment art. They are more interested in changing our total environment." Nonetheless, aside from the majestic scale, the frequent emptiness and the su-persimple icons of the past three decades, there is a lesson to be learned from the Met's show. It is that American artists have persistently practiced a kind...
Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down...
...name: funk art, which is defined by Berkeley's University Art Museum Director Peter Selz as being "hot rather than cool, committed rather than disengaged, bizarre rather than formal, sensuous and frequently quite ugly." The spirit behind it? "A go-to-hell attitude," says Selz, that typifies Bay Area artists because they have been "so totally rejected, or at least ignored...
...looked funky at all. Says Voulkos, "It's pretty open. There's no literal connotation in it." It simply looked like a shiny bronze-and-aluminum convocation of happy-go-lucky boa constrictors, and could be Fernand Leger on a three-dimensional spree. After all, by Peter Selz's definition, a work of art designed on request for a city hall can't possibly be funky, since the public has neither rejected the artist nor ignored...
...Seven Decades" survey, as its selector Selz explained it, was to reveal "rebellion and innovation, qualities vital to the life of art." And the rebellion and innovation are far from over. After the galleries closed down about midnight, those of the opening-night travelers with sufficient stamina dashed up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to catch the tail end of yet another opening. There, 42 young U.S. and British sculptors launched what may be a new art movement. The new trend is all bare pipe and unadorned steel, and it trumpets "less is more" as its philosophical basis...