Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern

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Label

Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern

Title remainder

the shock of the modern

Statement of responsibility

Francine Prose

Creator

• Prose, Francine, 1947-

Contributor

• MacDuffie, Carrington, 1958-
• hoopla digital

Author

• Prose, Francine, 1947-

Narrator

• MacDuffie, Carrington, 1958-

Subject

• Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography
• Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

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 bestselling 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. Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. She also explores the ways in which Guggenheim's image was filtered through the lens of insidious anti-Semitism

Member of

• Jewish Lives

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

• 709.2
• B

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Read by Carrington MacDuffie

Series statement

Jewish Lives ;

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable