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Eccentric heiress revolutionizes modern art patronage.
If you're someone who appreciates the blend of personal biography with the evolution of modern art, you'll find "Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern" engaging. Prose brings to life a figure who was as complex as she was influential, showcasing how Guggenheim's eye for art and her personal eccentricities carved a permanent space for her in the history of modern art. It's a read that offers not just a study of a person, but a window into the transformative world of modern art through the lens of an extraordinary art patron.
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Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern - Jewish Lives
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ISBN: 9780300203486
Authors:
Francine Prose
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date of Publication: 2015-10-29
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
American History,
Biography Memoir,
Art History,
Art Books Monographs,
Biography,
Art and Photography,
European History
Goodreads rating: 3.58
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One of twentieth-century America’s most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum in Venice, Italy, remains one of the world’s great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock. Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim’s life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim’s image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.
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