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1 de ene. de 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 ...
1 de ene. de 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
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 ...
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 ...
Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism (2004) quantity. Add to basket. 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 ...
4 de ene. de 2007 · 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 voraciousness.
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 voraciousness. She was known for taking lovers at the drop of a beret as much as for her choices in modern art.
