Peter Selz (51 page)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
182
,
233
n
5

History of Art
(Janson),
159
–
60

Hitchcock, Henry Russell,
83

Hitler, Adolf: decadent art show of (
Entartete Kunst
),
5
; early Jewish attitudes toward,
8
–
9
; Olympic Games and,
12
; postwar documentary on,
68
; rise of,
2
,
13
; water-color paintings of,
2

Hodler, Ferdinand,
186
,
198

Hofmann, Hans,
118
,
138
,
141
,
183

Holland, Frank,
34

Holocaust,
66
–
68
,
198
.
See also
Nazism (National Socialist Party)

Homage to New York
(exhibition). See
Jean Tinguely
(exhibition)

Hopps, Walter,
45
,
245
n
4

Horn, Walter,
119
,
141
,
146
,
151
,
186

Howard, John Galen,
119

Howard, Leslie,
214
n
1

Hudson, Robert,
125
,
128

Huelsenbeck, Richard,
79
,
81

Hughes, Robert,
199

Hultén, K. G. (Pontus),
81
–
82
,
225
n
24

humanist position: of Beckmann,
92
–
95
,
208
; building blocks for art in,
183
–
84
,
187
; ecological awareness linked to,
185
; of Giacometti,
95
–
96
;
New Images of Man
and,
74
–
78
,
224
n
13
; Oliveira influenced by,
193
–
94
; Pop Artists as rejecting,
101
–
2
; retirement activities focused on,
183
–
84
,
191
–
92
,
193
–
94
; Rothko's work in context of,
86
; Selz's unassailable, continued support for,
207
,
208
–
9
; spiritual in art linked to,
130
–
31
,
163
,
173
–
77
.
See also
figurative work

Hunter, Sam,
48

ID.
See
Institute of Design (ID, Chicago)

Illinois Institute of Technology,
35

Imagists (Chicago),
33

immigrants: adaptability key to success,
14
; art history introduced as academic discipline by,
151
; artists and musicians as,
43
; divisions among,
17
; networking and assimilation process for,
14
–
16
,
17
; Tillich as,
73
,
223
n
3

immigration: Jewish difficulties in,
13
,
215
–
16
n
3
; obstacles to,
8
–
9
; realizing necessity of,
10
–
11
; reminiscences about,
15
–
16
; youth group's role in,
6
,
7

Impressionists, American,
103

Inness, George,
175

Institute of Design (ID, Chicago): aesthetic stance of,
31
–
32
,
33
,
34
; decline of,
35
; departure from,
36
; kinetic art discussed at,
127
; Selz's teaching at,
30
–
31
,
32
–
33

International Congress of Art Critics,
196
–
97

International Council,
52
,
54

Iraq War: art series about,
133
–
34
,
246
nn
15
–
16
; protest of,
Fig. 24

Irwin, Robert,
42

Italy: I Tatti collection,
140
,
141
; Selz's bicycle expedition through,
Fig. 7
,
5
; Selz's trip with Rothko to,
Fig. 17
,
120
.
See also
Venice (Italy)

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts.
See
Rutberg, Jack

Jackson, Jerrell C.,
215
n
27

Jackson Pollock
(exhibition),
55

Jane's Addiction (band),
viii

Janis, Sidney,
101

Janson, H. W.,
159
–
60

Jean Dubuffet
(exhibition),
90

Jeanne-Claude (artist),
153
–
54
,
177
,
185

Jean Tinguely
(exhibition): decision to hold,
78
–
79
; documentary on,
81
,
224
n
16
; implications for Selz,
81
–
82
; kinetic art anticipated in,
88
,
126
; preparation for,
79
–
80
; reflections on,
72
,
80
; reviews of,
56
,
80
–
81
; scheduling of,
85
; spectators at,
80

Jenson, Kevan,
182
,
190
,
203

Joachim, Harold,
57
,
92

Johns, Jasper,
98
,
224
n
17

Johnson, Phillip,
234
n
11

Jonathan Clark & Co.,
181

Jorasch, Richard,
119

Judd, Donald,
230
–
31
n
25
,
248
n
49

Kahn, Herbert,
Fig. 7
,
5

Kahn, Tobi,
Fig. 23
,
176
,
203

Kala Institute,
182

Kallir, Jane,
20

Kallir, Otto,
16
,
20

Kammen, Michael,
235
n
15

Kandinsky, Wassily,
5
,
29
,
177

Kantor, Paul,
42

Kantor, Sybil Gordon,
220
n
6
,
220
–
21
n
8

Kaplan, Fred,
98

Karpel, Bernard,
65

Kasten, Karl,
138
,
239
n
78

Kauffman, Craig,
42
,
245
n
4

Kémeny, A.,
235
n
24

Kentridge, William,
207
–
8
,
209

Kerr, Clark: BAM fundraising of,
119
,
121
,
123
; Guggenheim proposal of,
141
; Hofmann collection development and,
138
; Reagan's firing of,
141
,
143
; Selz's relationship with,
138
–
39

Kiefer, Anselm,
207
,
209

Kienholz, Ed,
42
,
45
,
88
,
245
n
4

kinetic art: exhibition of,
123
,
126
–
28
; manifesto of,
235
n
24
; Selz's teaching and involvement with,
157
; Tinguely as anticipating,
88

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig,
5
,
28
,
29

Kirkeby, Paula,
131
,
181
,
195
–
96

Kitaj, R. B.,
104

Klee, Paul,
5

Klimt, Gustav,
16
,
83

Kline, Franz,
70
,
90
,
169

Kohn, Karl,
43

Kokoschka, Oskar,
16

Kollwitz, Käthe,
8

Kootz, Sam,
138

Kostka, Robert,
190

Kramer, Hilton,
100
–
101
,
188
,
228
n
2

Krautheimer, Richard,
36

Kress Foundation,
144

Krevsky, George,
181
,
182

Krevsky Gallery,
181
,
182

Kuh, Kathleen,
76
,
77
,
224
n
6
,
224
n
12

Kunitz, Stanley,
101

Kunstgewerbemuseum (Zurich),
82

Lacey, Suzanne,
158

LACMA.
See
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Laguna Art Museum,
241
n
14

Landau, Felix,
42
,
44

Landauer, Susan,
155
–
56
,
197
,
240
n
13
,
240
–
41
n
14
,
241
nn
15
–
16

Landy, Michael,
224
n
16

Langlois, Henri,
121
,
234
n
12

Langsner, Jules,
44
,
229
n
5

Leaf, June,
34

Lebrun, Rico,
44
–
45
,
63

Le Corbusier,
57

Léger, Fernand,
22

Legg, Alicia,
51
,
108

Lemert, Deirdre (fourth wife),
245
n
1

Leslie, Charles,
x
,
38
–
39
,
110
,
213
n
3

Leslie, Zelda,
38
–
39
,
213
n
3

Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb,
137

Levine, Morton,
165
–
66

Lewallen, Connie,
133
–
34
,
237
n
43

Lichtenstein, Roy,
100

Lieberman, William S.,
Fig. 14
,
57

Liebmann family (in New York City),
10
,
18
–
19
,
21

Lindner, Richard,
182
,
198
,
246
n
13

Lippard, Lucy,
159
,
247
n
27

“living the art life”: adapting to American life,
14
; as “artist-agent,”
154
–
55
; artist friends in,
64
,
85
,
120
,
129
,
135
–
36
,
153
,
154
–
55
,
161
,
162
–
63
,
170
,
192
–
93
,
201
–
5
,
234
n
8
; creativity and liberation,
ix
; enthusiasm and engagement,
x
,
152
–
53
,
186
–
87
; generosity and inclusiveness,
187
–
88
; as independent outsider,
152
,
160
–
61
,
171
–
72
; loyalty to chosen art and artists in,
105
,
155
,
184
,
195
,
198
; open to new experiences,
vii
–
viii
,
x
,
18
,
36
,
41
,
123
–
24
,
150
,
155
,
173
,
187
,
195
–
96
,
213
n
2
,
240
n
11
; Paris sojourn in clarifying,
31
–
32
; in Pomona's milieu,
38
–
39
; spiritually focused friends in,
174
–
77
.
See also
art and politics connections; bohemian lifestyle

Lloyd, Frank: crooked dealings of,
168
–
69
,
243
nn
60
–
61
; lawsuit against,
165
–
66

Loran, Erle,
Fig. 18
,
138

Los Angeles: L'Angolo Cafe in,
vii
; cultural exceptionalism of,
235
n
15
; later association with galleries in,
181
,
196
; music scene at midcentury,
42
–
43
; Whisky a Go Go in,
vii
–
viii
,
150
,
213
n
2
.
See also
Southern California art scene

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA): professional support for,
40
–
41
; exhibitions:
Four Abstract Classicists
,
43
–
44
; Hermitage treasures,
197
;
Made in California
,
197

love and sexuality: characterization of,
178
; first love (Gina),
Fig. 9
,
16
,
17
–
18
,
216
n
16
; first marriage,
30
,
36
,
39
; first divorce,
116
; Peter's infidelities in,
110
,
113
,
114
,
232
n
42
; Peter's reputation and,
155
–
56
,
157
,
164
; second marriage,
113
–
14
,
116
; Thalia's infidelities in,
114
,
232
n
45
; third and fourth marriages,
245
n
1
; fifth marriage,
178
–
80
.
See also
bohemian lifestyle; Selz, Carole Schemmerling (fifth wife); Selz, Norma (second wife); Selz, Thalia (Cheronis) (first wife)