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 careerfrom Chicago s Institute of Design (New Bauhaus), to New York s Museum of Modern Art during the transformative 1960s, and as founding director of the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. Karlstrom sheds light on the controversial...