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A01=Francine Prose
Author_Francine Prose
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AB
Category=NL-BG
COP=United States
Discount=15
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=213
IMPN=Yale University Press
ISBN13=9780300203486
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20151002
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Yale University Press
SMM=23
SN=Jewish Lives (Yale)
Subject=Biography: General
Subject=The Arts: General Issues
WG=444
WMM=156

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern

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Hardback | English

By (author): Francine Prose

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, 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. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: Excellent. -New York Times Exemplary. -Wall Street Journal Distinguished. -New Yorker Superb. -The Guardian See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 444g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 213 x 23mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300203486
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