Title Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern / Francine Prose

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Jewish lives Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Angel of the City -- Out of This Century -- June 1941 -- Her Money -- Her Nose -- Education -- Hayford Hall -- Guggenheim Jeune -- Paris Before the War -- New York -- Art of This Century -- Pollock -- Venice -- Pegeen -- A Death in Venice -- A note on sources -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index Summary A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979. SUBJECT Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 fast Subject Women art collectors -- United States -- Biography Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers. ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- Permanent Collections. ART -- Museum Studies. Art -- Collectors and collecting Women art collectors United States Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Form Electronic book LC no. 2015932202 ISBN 9780300216523 0300216521

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