"Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice September 21, 2019 - January 27, 2020"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
Contents:
Index. Acknowledgments -- Conversations with Marina Apollonio, Alberto Biasi, and Franco Costalonga / Flavia Frigeri -- London -- Dealer or patron? Guggenheim jeune and the development of the surrealist art market in London / Alice Ensabella -- Paris -- On a mission: Peggy Guggenheim collecting art in Paris, 1937-40 / Simonetta Fraquelli -- New York -- Transitions: surrealism, exile, and art of this century / Patricia Allmer -- A ripple in the glass ceiling: Irene Rice Pereira, Peggy Guggenheim, and the women of art of this century / Antonia Pocock -- Catalysts: Peggy Guggenheim and Jackson Pollock / David Anfam -- Venice -- 1948: Peggy Guggenheim's biennale / Gražina Subelytė -- Palazzo Venier dei Leoni: an inhabited space, a house of cards / Malvina Borgherini -- Collecting in three dimensions: Peggy Guggenheim and sculpture, 1940-48 / Chiara Fabi -- Unfulfilled hopes or misguided expectations: Peggy Guggenheim and Italian art / Davide Colombo -- Cycles of return: CoBrA / Karen Kurczynski -- Collecting by instinct: Peggy Guggenheim and British art / Chris Stephens -- Africa and Oceania in Venice / Ellen McBreen -- Conversations with Marina Apollonio, Alberto Biasi, and Franco Costalonga / Flavia Frigeri -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898 -1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to which she would continue to add for the rest of her life. The selections from her collection, emphasizing lesser-known works, are accompanied by a series of previously unpublished photographs from her life during periods spent living in London, Paris and her native New York, as well as Venice, where she settled with her collection in 1949 and spent her remaining 30 years. Each period of Guggenheim's life is examined through contributions from 13 international scholars and researchers, which, along with the photographs, provide new insights into her colorful and impressive career building one of the world's most significant and widely visited personal art collections. Exhibition: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy (21.09.2019-27.01.2020).
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