Peggy Guggenheim
The Shock of the Modern
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 211 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
A biography of one of twentieth century America's most influential patrons of the arts that covers her personal life, uncompromising spirit, and relationships with such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray.
Series: Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Contents:
The angel of the city -- Out of this century -- June 1941 -- Her money -- Her nose -- Education -- Hayford Hall -- Guggenheim jeune -- Paris before the war -- New York -- Art of this century -- Pollock -- Venice -- Pegeen -- A death in Venice.
Subjects:
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780300203486
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Guggenheim, Peggy | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199) and index.