Peggy Guggenheim

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : 42,7 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 : Mary V. Dearborn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Anton Gill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Stefan Moses
Publisher : Hardie Grant
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Karole P. B. Vail,Vivien Greene
Publisher : Marsilio Editori
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822018960609

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Peggy Guggenheim and Her Friends by Peggy Guggenheim Pdf

Author : Peggy Guggenheim Collection,Philip Rylands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015061099530

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Peggy Guggenheim Collection by Peggy Guggenheim Collection,Philip Rylands Pdf

Essay by Philip Rylands.

Author : Courtney Maum
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947793378

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Costalegre: A Novel Inspired By Peggy Guggenheim and Her Daughter by Courtney Maum Pdf

"Delightful ... In Lara, Maum has given a little-considered daughter a more hopeful future." —Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review “Maum’s slender, intelligent Costalegre is about many things: art as spectacle and art as discipline; life as joke and life as tragedy; the role of unreason in paintings and politics. But most of all, it’s about the youthful desire to be, in Lara’s words, contemplated and considered — to be, in short, loved." — The Boston Globe One of Glamour's Best Books of the Decade and a Best Book of Summer at AM New York, Moda Operandi, GOOP, Publishers Weekly, TIME, Southern Living, and Thrillist. It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of “cultural degenerates”—artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed antithetical to the new regime. To prevent the destruction of her favorite art (and artists), the impetuous American heiress and modern art collector Leonora Calaway begins chartering boats and planes for an elite group of surrealists to Costalegre, a mysterious resort in the Mexican jungle. The story of what happens to these artists when they reach their destination is told from the point of view of Lara, Leonora’s neglected fifteen-year-old daughter. Forced from a young age to live with her mother’s eccentric whims, tortured lovers, and entourage of gold-diggers, Lara suffers from emotional, educational, and geographical instability that a Mexican sojourn with surrealists isn’t going to help. But when she meets the outcast Dadaist sculptor Jack Klinger, Lara thinks she might have found the understanding she so badly craves. Heartbreaking and strange, Costalegre is inspired by the real-life relationship between the heiress Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, Pegeen. Courtney Maum triumphs with this wildly imaginative and curiously touching story of a privileged teenager who has everything a girl could wish for—except a mother who loves her back.

Author : Laurence Tacou-Rumney
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847824616

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Peggy Guggenheim by Laurence Tacou-Rumney Pdf

But the Second World War sent her and her already celebrated collection into exile in New York along with the European surrealist artists, many of whom she had helped escape from war-torn Europe. There she married Max Ernst and staged her groundbreaking exhibitions of young, unknown American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko. When the armistice was declared, Peggy returned to Europe, settling in a Venetian palazzo on the Grand Canal, where she became known as "the last dogaressa." The ultimate provocation, the Palazzo Guggenheim became the Renaissance setting for her remarkable collection of twentieth-century art an obligatory stop-over for an international cultural elite.

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Susan Davidson,Philip Rylands,Dieter Bogner
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015062839975

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Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler by Susan Davidson,Philip Rylands,Dieter Bogner Pdf

Edited by Susan Davidson and Philip Rylands Essays by Dieter Bogner, Francis V. O'Connor, Don Quaintance, Jasper Sharp and Valentina Sonzogni.

Author : Jacqueline Bograd Weld
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art patrons
ISBN : UOM:39015013660116

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Peggy by Jacqueline Bograd Weld Pdf

Author : Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:1149278357

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Handbook, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection by Peggy Guggenheim Collection Pdf