Welbeck Publishing Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

Questo libro è assolutamente indispensabile per chi vuole emulare una vita che accetta bellezza come antidote al dolore inerente in ogni viaggio concesso sulla terra… se piu persone con i mezzi e privileggi potessero trovare gioia e generosità nella faccia della stranezza del destino, forse gli esseri umani troverebbe la potenzialità promessa dal concetto del cuore aperto, qualità posseduta dalla Guggenheim in sovraabbondanza.

Nicely written and insightful. Entertaining.

love this!

Muy bien. Muy interesante si te interesa la vida de una gran coleccionista de arteEstaba en perfecto estado al recibirlo.Lo recomiendo 100%.Muchas gracias por todo.

If anyone wants to read a book on Peggy Guggenheim, this is it. She was a remarkable figure, drifting after her father went down on the Titanic with his mistress, finally settling in Europe during the roaring 20s.Peggy was attracted not so much to the Lost Generation as she was to the Surrealists and her taste in art was formed through the unlikely combination of influences, Bernard Berenson and Marcel Duchamp. By a series of unfortunate events, to include WWII, she managed to acquire one of the great collections of art of the 20th century.Peggy Guggenheim spent the war years in New York, unhappily married to the painter Max Ernst and happily running the influential gallery Out of this Century which was as much a funhouse as it was a business. Into this enterprise was fostered the abstract expressionist movement. Peggy Guggenheim discovered Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell.After the war, Peggy decamped to Venice, where she established her world famous museum. Along with the museum and its collection, Peggy Guggenheim's most enduring and satisfying relationship was with the city of Venice itself.Along with art, Peggy Guggenheim also devotes a great deal of time to her many love affairs with the intelligentsia of Europe in the interwar period, to include the likes of Samuel Beckett. While the initial publication of these memoirs scandalized the American press and the Guggenheim family (Peggy jokes that the family hired people to buy up copies of her book to protect the family name), she comes across as throughly human and modern.In most biographies, Peggy Guggenheim comes across as somewhat joyless. However, here in her own words, she seems thoroughly enchanted with her life and rightly so. Any woman who could through parties with a guest list that included Gypsy Rose Lee and Andre Bretton, probably was a fun person, whose appetite for life is obscured by biographers who aren't.Ultimately what comes across is Peggy's joy as a collector, be it an Arp sculpture or a Pollock mural. This is the story of someone who lost her father in a tragic event, was never able to sustain a long term relationship, but found joy in what became a famous collection and in her adopted home of Venice.