Peter Selz (48 page)

AVC (American Veterans Committee),
38

awards and honors: best art book (Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, 2006),
xi
–
xii
,
200
; German, for “Interest in Twentieth-Century German Art,”
91
,
201
; Peter Selz Day proclamation,
201
; tribute exhibitions,
177
,
181
,
235
n
21
,
247
n
28

Baas, Jacquelynn,
147
,
148
,
234
n
11
,
239
n
79

Bachert, Hildegard (Gina): career of,
17
,
20
; on immigration and networking,
14
–
15
; name of,
216
n
12
; Selz's romance with,
Fig. 9
,
16
,
17
–
18
,
216
n
16

Bacon, Francis,
64

Bahr, Hermann,
29

Baldwin, Justin,
179

Baldwin, Kyra (granddaughter),
179
,
204

Baldwin, Mia Schemmerling (stepdaughter),
179

Baldwin, Rian (granddaughter),
179

Ballaine, Jerry,
145

BAM.
See
Berkeley Art Museum (BAM, formerly University Art Museum [UAM])

Banyan (“pickup” supergroup),
vii

Barbara Chase-Riboud
(book and exhibition),
158
,
159

Bareiss, Walter,
107
,
231
n
29

Barnes, Lucinda,
137
,
235
n
22

Barr, Alfred H., Jr.: Abstract Expressionism exhibition and book of,
59
–
60
; attraction of,
225
n
18
; on Beckmann's
Departure
,
93
,
227
n
49
; on controversial exhibitions,
78
; film archive and,
121
;
Jean Tinguely
exhibition and,
80
,
81
; on Miller's exhibition series,
79
; MoMA acquisitions handled by,
51
; as MoMA director,
49
–
51
,
220
–
21
n
8
; MoMA's canon established by,
49
,
56
,
72
,
73
,
99
,
228
n
3
; Selz's departure and,
106
–
7
,
108
; Selz's view of,
33
,
52
,
54
; spirituality and,
173
–
74
; on
Stieglitz Circle
exhibition,
46

Barry, Iris,
121
,
234
n
11

Baskin, Leonard,
202

Bates, Tom,
201

Bauhaus: curriculum inspired by,
30
–
31
; decline of idea of,
35
; kinetic art discussed at,
127
; recent exhibition on,
219
n
22
.
See also
Institute of Design (ID, Chicago)

Bauhaus 1919–1933
(exhibition),
219
n
22

Bay Area art scene: art and politics nexus in,
133
–
34
,
246
nn
15
–
16
; immersion in,
123
–
24
; later association with galleries in,
181
,
182
; Selz's impact on,
186
–
90
.
See also
Berkeley Art Museum (BAM, formerly University Art Museum [UAM]); University of California at Berkeley;
and specific cities

Bayer, Herbert,
35

Bearden, Romare,
201

Beatles,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(album cover),
246
n
13

beauty,
82
,
192

Bechtle, Robert,
142

Beckmann, Max: in BAM collection,
140
; central place of,
32
; Christian aspect of,
74
; humanism of,
92
–
95
,
208
; MoMA exhibition of,
72
,
92
–
95
,
218
n
14
; Oliveira influenced by,
193
,
194
; Selz's view of,
5
,
28
,
186
,
191
; St. Louis exhibition (1948) of,
94
; works:
Departure
,
Fig. 1
,
93
;
Large Self-Portrait
,
Fig. 27
,
28
; “Letters to a Woman Painter,”
94
,
227
n
55
;
Woman Half-Nude at the Window
,
140

Beckmann, Quappi (Mathilde Q.),
32
,
94
,
227
n
55

Bellagio Study Center,
182

Benjamin, Karl,
43
–
44

Benton, Fletcher,
127
–
28

Berber, Alphonse,
181
,
203

Berenson, Bernard,
140
,
141

Berkeley: antiwar, antiestablishment counterculture of,
119
,
124
–
26
,
133
,
233
n
3
; art and politics nexus in,
133
–
34
,
246
nn
15
–
16
; attractions of,
119
–
20
; later association with galleries in,
181
,
182
; National Guard crackdown on protesters in,
145
–
46
; Peter Selz Day proclamation in,
201
; Selz's arrival in,
117
,
118
; Selz's impact on art scene of,
186
–
90
.
See also
Bay Area art scene; Berkeley Art Museum (BAM, formerly University Art Museum [UAM]); Graduate Theological Union (GTU); University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley Art Museum (BAM, formerly University Art Museum [UAM]): collection development at,
136
–
40
,
142
; design and construction of,
Fig. 16
,
119
–
20
,
233
n
5
; difficulties and disappointments at,
140
–
48
; faculty collaborations with,
144
,
238
n
69
; founding of,
118
; funding of,
119
–
20
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
143
,
145
,
146
,
239
n
79
; Hofmann gift and wing of,
118
,
138
,
141
; hoped-for new building of,
238
n
60
; innovative, subversive course of,
123
–
24
; later activities in association with,
183
; MATRIX series of,
237
n
43
; New York contacts and,
120
–
21
; opening events at,
Fig. 19
,
124
–
26
; politically engaged art at,
133
–
34
; renaming from University Art Museum,
183
; reputation before Selz,
123
–
24
; Selz's arrival at,
117
,
118
; Selz's departure from,
144
–
45
,
146
–
48
,
149
; Selz's goals at,
118
,
137
; sexism at,
158
–
59
,
234
n
11
,
242
n
27
; Stich's contributions to,
151
,
240
n
2
; students' view of Selz's work at,
150
.
See also
Pacific Film Archive (PFA); Powerhouse Gallery

—exhibitions:
Abu Ghraib
series,
183
,
246
nn
15
–
16
; Asian art,
143
;
The Hand and the Spirit
,
174
–
75

—exhibitions by Selz: Barbara Chase-Riboud,
158
,
159
; criticism of,
158
–
59
;
Directions in Kinetic Sculpture
,
123
,
126
–
28
;
Excellence
,
124
; René Magritte,
123
; Jules Pascin,
123
. See also
Funk
(exhibition)

Berkeley Parks Commission,
246
n
11

Berlin Olympic Games (1936),
12

Berman, Wallace,
42
,
45
,
61
,
245
n
4

Berry, Chuck,
106

Beyond the Mainstream
(Selz),
184
,
188
,
196
–
97

Bierstadt, Albert,
137

Bingham, George Caleb,
99

Birkmeyer, Karl,
41

Black Mountain College (N.C.),
35

Blake, Peter,
246
n
13

Blanckenhagen, Peter-Heinrich von,
28

Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider, group),
29

Bliss, Lillie P.,
49
–
50

Boggs, Jean,
41

bohemian lifestyle: Andersen's comments on,
172
; Berkeley-area triumvirate of,
135
–
36
; creativity and liberation associated with,
ix
; of Pomona social life,
38
–
39
; sexuality in,
114
.
See also
Funk art

Bohrod, Aaron,
218
n
17

Bonnard, Pierre,
83
,
84

Boswell, Peter,
130

Botero, Fernando,
133
–
34
,
246
nn
15
–
16

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe,
104

Boulez, Pierre,
43

Brancusi, Constantin,
185

Braque, Georges,
162

Brautigan, Richard,
125

Bresdin, Rodolphe,
57

Breuer, Marcel,
233
n
5

Brewster, John, Jr.,
137

Brodzky, Anne,
182
,
190
–
91

Brown, Joan,
142

Brown, Richard (Rick),
40

Bruner, Louise,
97
–
98
,
227
–
28
n
1

b. sakata garo (gallery):
Tribute to Peter Selz
exhibition at,
235
n
21
,
247
n
28

Buber, Martin,
8

Bunshaft, Gordon,
233
n
5

Burden, William,
65

Burkhardt, Hans,
Fig. 22
,
196
–
97

Busch-Reisinger Gallery (Harvard University),
183
,
198

Buxbaum, Richard,
148
,
188
,
239
–
40
n
82
,
247
n
32

Cage, John,
43

Cahill, Holger,
224
–
25
n
18

Cahill, James,
143
–
44
,
146
,
147
,
238
n
68

California: cultural exceptionalism of,
123
,
235
n
15
; New York attitudes toward,
63
,
75
,
118
; Rothko's visit to,
121
; Thalia's resistance to return to,
115
,
116
.
See also
Bay Area art scene; Southern California art scene; University of California at Berkeley;
and specific cities

California lifestyle: Funk in context of,
132
–
33
; openness to,
18
,
36
,
41
,
123
–
24
; post-WWI political context of,
171
.
See also
bohemian lifestyle

California Palace of the Legion of Honor,
184
–
85

Callahan, Harry,
31

Campoli, Cosmo,
34
,
172

Canaday, John:
Jean Tinguely
reviewed by,
80
–
81
;
Mark Rothko
reviewed by,
87
,
90
;
New Images of Man
reviewed by,
75
–
76
,
224
n
6
; on Optical Art,
99
; on Pop Art,
228
–
29
n
5
;
The Work of Jean Dubuffet
reviewed by,
89
–
90

Cándida Smith, Richard,
79
,
134
,
152
,
224
n
17

Carson, Gary,
154
–
55
,
171

Cartwright, Derrick,
152
–
53
,
155

Castelli, Leo,
60
,
250
n
6

Centenary Exhibition of Morris Graves
(exhibition),
190

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
23
,
24
,
25
,
53
,
54

Cervenka, Exene,
213
n
2

Chagoya, Enrique,
187
–
88
,
247
n
27

Chase-Riboud, Barbara,
158
,
159

Chermayeff, Serge,
30

Cheronis, Dion,
113

Cheronis, Nicholas D.,
113