Confessions Of An Art Addict

Author : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780062288363

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Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim Pdf

A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves Peggy Guggenheim was born into affluence and a lavish lifestyle. Bored with her seemingly "pedestrian" life in New York, she headed for Europe in 1921, where she woudl sow the seeds for a future as one of modern art's most important and influential figures. In the midst of Europe's avant-garde circles, she reveled in her love affairs with prominent artists and also became a serious collector. Her Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London brought figures such as Brancusi, Cocteau, Kandinsky, and Arp to the forefront of the art scene. Later, her New York gallery would launch the careers of Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, among others. In her own inimitable and bawdy style, Peggy Guggenheim gives us an insider's glimpse into the modern art world with intimate, often surprising portrayals of its most significant players. Candid, clever, and always entertaining, here is a memoir that captures a valuable chapter in the history of modern art, as well as the spirit of one of its greatest advocates.

Author : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim by Peggy Guggenheim Pdf

In her captivating memoir, Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim, the renowned art collector and socialite takes readers on a fascinating journey through her extraordinary life. From her bohemian upbringing to her pivotal role in shaping the modern art world, Guggenheim's story is one of passion, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to the avant-garde. This intimate and candid account offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a visionary who left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of the 20th century.

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060956813

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Art Lover by Anton Gill Pdf

Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century. After her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic, the young heiress came into a small fortune and left for Europe. She married the writer Laurence Vail and joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her. In the late 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works, buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was a vital part of the new American abstract expressionist movement. Meticulously researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts.

Author : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054103851

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Out of this Century by Peggy Guggenheim Pdf

Author : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0880015764

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Confessions Of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim Pdf

A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves. Here is a book that captures a valuable chapter in the history of modern art, as well as the spirit of one of its greatest advocates.

Author : Laurie Viera Rigler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101213766

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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman’s life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her level of Austen mania has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condom-less seducers, and marriages of convenience. This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in the Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. But when Courtney’s borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues. Will she ever get her real life back, and does she even want to?

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UCSC:32106016338037

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Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill Pdf

Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had? Do you mean my own, or other people's? Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father died on the Titanic returning from installing the lift machinery in the Eiffel Tower. She lived in Paris in the 1930s and got to know all the major artists - especially the Surrealists. (Later she bullied Max Ernst into marrying her, but was snubbed by Picasso.) When the Second World War broke out, she bought great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America; as a Jew she escaped from Vichy, France and set up in New York, where in the 1940s and 1950s she befriended and encouraged the New York School (Jackson Pollock, Rothko, and others)

Author : Stefan Moses
Publisher : Hardie Grant
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1784881872

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Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim by Stefan Moses Pdf

Born into a wealthy New York family in 1898, Marguerite 'Peggy' Guggenheim was one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century. Using her inheritance to open her first art gallery, Peggy's love of art lead her to eventually settle in Venice, where she relaunched her life after becoming the star of the 1948 Venice Art Biennale. For her, a life without the inspiration of her artist and writer friends would have been unthinkable. In Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim, renowned photographer Stefan Moses reveals his collection of photographs of Peggy, taken between 1969 and 1974, many of which have never been seen before. Striking, eccentric and dramatic, Moses photographed Peggy in her favorite places around Venice, as well as in her private palazzo at Canal Grande. See Peggy as she glides on her gondola with her Lhasa apso dogs, wearing her iconic butterfly glasses made by Edward Melcarth -- the quickness and talent of Moses captures the character of this true eccentric. An inspiration for art-, photography- and fashion-lovers alike, Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim is a behind-the-scenes look at of one of the world's most eccentric and inspirational women.

Author : Mary V. Dearborn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0618128069

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Mistress of Modernism by Mary V. Dearborn Pdf

Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.

Author : Karole P. B. Vail,Vivien Greene
Publisher : Marsilio Editori
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 8829701297

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Peggy Guggenheim by Karole P. B. Vail,Vivien Greene Pdf

A visual biography of the great patron and collector This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to which she would continue to add for the rest of her life. The selections from her collection, emphasizing lesser-known works, are accompanied by a series of previously unpublished photographs from her life during periods spent living in London, Paris and her native New York, as well as Venice, where she settled with her collection in 1949 and spent her remaining 30 years. Each period of Guggenheim's life is examined through contributions from 13 international scholars and researchers, which, along with the photographs, provide new insights into her colorful and impressive career building one of the world's most significant and widely visited personal art collections.

Author : Mary Gabriel
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780316226196

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Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel Pdf

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

Author : Jacqueline Bograd Weld
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art patrons
ISBN : UOM:39015013660116

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Peggy by Jacqueline Bograd Weld Pdf

Author : Philip J. Schiller,Paul Schiller
Publisher : Chameleon Books (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 091582969X

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Buy what You Love by Philip J. Schiller,Paul Schiller Pdf

Mr. Schiller - one of the most important collectors of American art -- has assembled one of the finest private collections... in the country. In this book, he shares with the reader his wisdom and advice, gleaned from his longtime obsession with art.Buy art that you love and be aware of market prices. I try to explain what I have learned buying over 800 works of art. Buy what you love and buy with knowledge. Learn about the artist, his works good and bad, and the market for his works. Be an informed buyer. This will be helpful and enjoyable. Learn and then buy. You too can have an important collection. You don't need to be an art historian. Above all have a good time.

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300216523

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Peggy Guggenheim by Francine Prose Pdf

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 on the Grand Canal in Venice 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.

Author : Lele Pons,Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781501120541

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Surviving High School by Lele Pons,Melissa de la Cruz Pdf

"Lele is a bulls-eye target at her new school in Miami until, overnight, her digital fame catapults the girl with cheerleader looks, a seriously silly personality, and a self-deprecating funny bone into the popular crowd. Now she's facing a whole new set of challenges--the relentless drama, the ruthless cliques, the unexpected internet celebrity--all while trying to keep her grades up and make her parents proud"--