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Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant terrible of the art world. Peggy's visionary Art of This Century gallery in New York, which brought together the European surrealist artists with the American abstract expressionists ...
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1. Jan. 2004 · "Mistress of Modernism" is a book of gossip about artists rather than analysis. In places it reminds one of Hemingway's "Moveable Feast" or Gertrude Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas". It is most similar however to John Glassco's "Memoirs of Montparnasse" which contains a number of common characters and which is specifically cited by Dearborn. The expatriate community of the mid ...
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- Mary V. Dearborn
Peggy the woman is a riveting figure. She took lovers at the drop of a hat, but happiness in love eluded her—except perhaps until her 50s and 60s, when she had a long affair with a Venetian twenty years her junior. Commonly thought of as a miser, she was indeed very conscious of where every penny went but was also a lifelong supporter of the ...
1. Jan. 2004 · Mistress Of Modernism: The Life Of Peggy Guggenheim Hardcover – January 1, 2004 by Mary V. Dearborn (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
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Mistress of modernism : the life of Peggy Guggenheim by Dearborn, Mary V. Publication date 2004 Topics Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979, Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography, Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography Pu ...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - Antiques & Collectibles - 382 pages. Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant terrible of the art world. Peggy's visionary Art of This Century ...
A wonderful page-turner written with humility, immediacy, and great style. Nothing came cheap and easy to McCandless, nor will it to readers of Krakauer's narrative. (4 maps) (First printing of 35,000; author tour) Share your opinion of this book. Richly detailed, highly sympathetic portrait of the Guggenheim who rebelled against her family and ...
