Peggy Guggenheim : a celebration /
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| Author / Creator: | Vail, Karole P. B. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Guggenheim Museum : Hardcover edition distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1998. |
| Description: | 151 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3495276 |
| Summary: | Providing an account by her granddaughter of the life of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim, this biography traces her privileged upbringing and her friendships with avant-garde figures such as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp. Published to mark the centenary of Guggenheim's birth, the book describes how, before World War II, she ran the Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London, where she accumulated an outstanding collection of Surrealist and abstract art, and how in 1942 she escaped to New York with Max Ernst and opened the landmark Art of This Century gallery. There she exhibited her collection and works by emerging artists such as Jackson Pollock. |
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| Item Description: | "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim: a centennial celebration ... Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 12-September 2, 1998 ... Peggy Guggenheim Collection, September 29-January 12, 1999"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | 151 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125). |
| ISBN: | 0810969149 0892072067 (pbk.) |
