Peggy Guggenheim
Mistress of Modernism
$50.52
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2007
Summary
Now in B format, this fabulous biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous, multi-talented art collector and personality.
This new biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous, multi-talented art collector and personality. Great-granddaughter of Swiss immigrant Simon Guggenheim, and daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down on the Titanic, Peggy Guggenheim was an extremely controversial figure, censured for everything from stinginess to sexual v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080601 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844080609 |
| Author: | Mary Dearborn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 221mm x 29mm |
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Richly detailed, highly sympathetic portrait of the Guggenheim who rebelled against her family and then left to them her extraordinary collection of contemporary art…Peggy Guggenheim could not have wished for a more generous biographer than Dearborn…she credits [Guggenheim] for being a principal force in the public’s acceptance of mid-20th-century artists…we get much family history along the way…Thoroughly, even lovingly researched. - KIRKUS REVIEWS
Dearborn celebrates Guggenheim, the iconoclastic doyenne of abstract expressionism, in this appreciative, thorough biography…With its fluid prose and provocative subject, this book will appeal to art lovers interested in more than the paint. - PWExcellent…[Guggenheim’s] achievements were routinely minimized and her promiscuity was snidely exaggerated, but in Mary Dearborn’s biography she emerges as a woman of vision and integrity - BOSTON GLOBEDearborn…approaches her subject with a fine balance of sympathy and objectivity, and an unobtrusive authorial presence befitting the genre… Dearborn will convince readers to take Guggenheim seriously as an independent woman and an appreciator of art. WAS - ‘[Dearborn’s book is] deeply, perhaps lovingly researched and gives a new authenticity to the long-type-cast doyenne of the “champagne years,” the earAbout The Author
Mary Dearborn
Mary Dearborn is the author of four books. She holds a doctorate in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, where she was Mellon Fellow in the Humanities.
Author Location: New York
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