Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern

by Francine Prose

Book Overview

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300203489
• ISBN13: 9780300203486
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"