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"Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant terrible of the art world. Peggy's visionary Art of This Century gallery in New York, which brought together the European surrealist artists with the American abstract expressionists, was an epoch-making "happening" at the center of its time." "Dearborn's access to the Guggenheim family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight into Peggy's traumatic childhood in German-Jewish "Our Crowd" New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her caustic battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites: her lovers included Max Ernst, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Duchamp, to name a mere few. Here too is a portrait of Peggy's last years as l'ultima dogaressa - the last duchess - in her palazzo in Venice, where her collection still draws thousands of visitors every year."--BOOK JACKET.
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Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
2004, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Mistress of Modernism: the Life of Peggy Guggenheim
2004, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
September 15, 2004, Houghton Mifflin
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0618128069 9780618128068
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"PEGGY GUGGENHEIM viewed the Seligmans, her mother's side of her family, as "peculiar, if not mad.""
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