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Author : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Out of this Century written by Peggy Guggenheim and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1979 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim written by Peggy Guggenheim and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062288369
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confessions of an Art Addict written by Peggy Guggenheim and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780880015769
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confessions Of an Art Addict written by Peggy Guggenheim and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anton Gill
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006095681X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Art Lover written by Anton Gill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anton Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Peggy Guggenheim written by Anton Gill and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781784881870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim written by Stefan Moses and published by Hardie Grant. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacqueline Bograd Weld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780052543809
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Peggy written by Jacqueline Bograd Weld and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216521
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Peggy Guggenheim written by Francine Prose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Laurie Viera Rigler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101213760
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict written by Laurie Viera Rigler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
