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Title: Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim, Alfred H., Jr. Barr, Gore Vidal ISBN: 0-88001-576-4 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: LOOK, THERE'S A LONG PRIAPUS ON YOUR HORSE!
Comment: Here's the story of a woman that knew them all, felt the earth move under her feet with many of them, and bought their art for pretty much nothing. She recognized them when they were starting, and this makes her a Princess. This book is her equivalent to Gore Vidal's "Palimpsest" and Lillian Hellman's "Pentimento". This is one of those books that almost transports you to a long gone era, and makes you wish you could have been there to see it all.
Rating: 3
Summary: Confessions, Sort Of
Comment: Peggy was a trip. She also apparently had no editor, or so it seems, which adds to the air of entitlement and oblique charm that permeates this book. Her accounts are interesting historically, though PG's slant on history is sometimes its own beast. This is a quick read and some of her observations will make you laugh out loud ("I was worried about my virginity--I was twenty-three and I found it burdensome..."), while others are chilling, especially the question of which Jews she deemed worthy of her efforts to help them get to the States. This may be more entertaining than informative, but it's both.
Rating: 5
Summary: A "must have" book for any art lover!
Comment: This is a book you do not want to finish, you constantly wish that as you progress in your reading as the book will unfold in more pages. It does not happen. What a life story, full of art and style. What a charming book, simple and direct. Easy to read but so full of references to the Art of this Century. Peggy lived and tell the life of a brilliant collector not only of art pieces but of emotions and feelings. To me this is one of the best books of the year. It goes on top of DV by Diana Vreeland on my nightstand.
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Title: Art Lover : A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill ISBN: 006095681X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Peggy Guggenheim : A Collector's Album by Laurence Tacou-Rumney ISBN: 0847824616 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 19 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World by Anthony Haden-Guest ISBN: 0871137259 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Art Dealers: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Really Works by Laura De Coppet, Alan Jones, Laura De Coppet ISBN: 0815412452 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art by Roy R. Neuberger ISBN: 0471273430 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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