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Sto caricando le informazioni... Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (Jewish Lives) (2015)di Francine Prose
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a very engaging profile of Peggy Guggenheim and how she spent her (small?) fortune, but more importantly a profile of the surrealist and modern art communities in Paris and New York both before and after WWII. How the modern artists escaped Nazi occupied France is chilling, and Peggy's numerous affairs with artists and the operations of her gallery in New York and eventual museum in Venice are fascinating. ( ) This is a biography of Peggy Guggenheim who promoted avant-guarde artists like Man Ray and Jackson Pollock in her gallery in Midtown Manhattan and later in the museum she established in her Venetian palazzo. Never an easy person to deal with, she embraced modern art with both hands and didn't care who it shocked. An interesting portrait o a one-of-a-kind American nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)709.2The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts History, geographic treatment, biography Biography (artists not limited to a specific form)Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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