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Known as 'the Mistress of modern art', Peggy Guggenheim was a passionate collector and major patron. She amassed one of the most important collections of early 20th century European and American art embracing cubism, surrealism and expressionism. A 'poor little rich girl', (her father, Benjamin, went down with the Titanic in 1912), she was magnetically drawn to the avant-garde artistic community of Paris. She bought works by, and befriended, such artists as Picasso, Duchamp, Man Ray and Dali. In 1938 she opened her first gallery of modern art in London, followed by the 'Art of this Century' gallery in New York. Then, after a 4-year marriage to Max Ernst, she returned to Europe, setting up her collection in Venice where she lived until her death in 1979. This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story of her life and loves: her stormy relationships with such men as Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock, of artistic discoveries and the excitement of promoting great work. A must read for anyone with an interest in these major league artists, this seminal period of art history, and the ultimate self-invented woman.
- Sales Rank: #1185947 in Books
- Published on: 2005-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x .0" w x 5.08" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
About the Author
Art collector, patron and enfant terrible, Peggy Guggenheim (1989 - 1979) was born Marguerite Guggenheim to a wealthy New York city family. She became one of the most prominent cultural movers and shakers of the 20th century.
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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Addiction indeed - and not only to Art!
By Ralph Blumenau
What a self-indulgent, rackety and restless life this woman has led, and she makes no bones about it! As a young woman she was part of a bohemian set in Paris, promiscuous, often drunk, dancing the night through, almost like a caricature of a flapper. She was quite neurotic, often had hysterical weeping fits, and her relationships were usually stormy and quarrelsome, punctuated by long sulks when she wouldn't speak to her husbands. The first of these, Laurence Vail, was as neurotic as she was and very violent, as often as not in public places. But she was obviously not easy to live with either, and tactful restraint in behaviour or utterance was never one of her qualities, even with men on whom she was dependent. (The book, too, is "frank" and completely lacking in reticence.)
Her immense wealth enabled her to travel constantly all across Europe (we always learn in which motor-car), and much of this book is an account of every journey she made. What she chooses to record seems quite undiscriminating, often jejune and sometimes positively verges on the Pooterish, not least because of its uninspired style.
She knew nothing about art or music until John Holms, her partner after her first divorce, began to teach her about it, and one always suspects that it was artists rather than art that really attracted her. She admits that even when in 1938 she decided to open an art gallery in London, at the time "I couldn't distinguish one thing in art from another" and acted on the advice of Marcel Duchamp who "taught me the difference between Abstract and Surrealist art"! (p.161). And "in spite of the fact that I was opening a modern art gallery in London, I much preferred old masters" (p.163). These of course were no longer sexually available, while living artists were. She slept with an amazing number of them (as well as with, for example, Samuel Beckett and the kinky Roland Penrose), so there must have been some powerful allure about her into her forties and beyond, which does not come across in the book.
She soon began to collect not only artists but also their works, making it a principle to buy at least one work of art from every show she gave (p.166), but in the whole book there is no genuine appraisal of any work of art - only an account of her perpetual acquisitiveness. However, one has to admit that her investments were excellent in commercial terms. She bought and gave the first showings to a number of modern artists whose work would become immensely more valuable in time, and she especially prides herself on having made Jackson Pollock famous.
She was living in occupied and then in Vichy France during the early years of the German occupation, getting out not long before the United States entered the war; but she never sets down any reflections on the war as such, not then nor after Pearl Harbour, commenting only on how bureaucratic matters (visas, currency transfers, restrictions on the movements in the United States of her second husband, Max Ernst, as "an enemy alien") affected her own activities. While France was in torment, she can write, "During the summer [of 1940] I got rather bored and started having my hair dyed a different color every few weeks to amuse myself. First it was chestnut ... but then I got the wild idea of having it bleached bright orange... As a result of all the time I spent in the beauty parlor, I conceived a sort of weakness for the little hairdresser who worked so hard on my beauty. From re-reading D.H.Lawrence I also got a romantic idea that I should have a man who belonged to a lower class" (p.221/2) and we are led to assume that she had a fling with him. "Soon this got boring, and I needed a change". (p.222). She was as promiscuous in her forties as she had been in her twenties.
The bulk of this book - 324 out of 385 pages - was first published in 1946 when she was 48 years old. One part of the rest she published first in 1960 when she was 62 and the other part in 1977 when she was nearly eighty. Those parts show her in a much more sober light, when she has become the grande dame of Venice. By that time she has no taste for what was then the avant garde: "I do not like art today. I think it has gone to hell, as the result of the financial attitude. People blame me for what is painted today because I had encouraged and helped this new movement to be born. In the early 1940s there was a pure pioneering spirit in America. A new art had to be born - Abstract Expressionism. I fostered it. I do not regret it. It produced Pollock or rather Pollock produced it. This alone justifies my effort. As to the others, I don't know what got into them. Some people say that I got stuck. Maybe it is true.... Today is the age of collecting, not of creating." H'm!
So at the end we have a rare moment of reflection. For the rest, this is basically a shallow, tedious and excessively long book written by a spoilt, wealthy and rather silly woman; and it would not have been worth persevering with if the incidents she records did not throw some light on the weird personalities and behaviour of some very famous people in the artistic world, most of whom were psychologically as mixed-up and temperamental as she was. One feels there must have been more to her than that, and perhaps the recent biographies written about her by Anton Gill or Mary Dearborn reveal another side of her; but after having read her own book, I have no interest in reading any more about her.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Try a NON Auto- Biography instead...
By L. Macke
this book was extremely difficult to read. in fact, i had to ditch it less than halfway through. i was very excited to read about such a strong and artistic woman after visiting her museum in Venice, Italy, however, I was brutally rebuffed upon trying to get through just a few chapters. she never goes into detail on what you'd like to know about and goes into tedious detail about things you couldn't give a hoot about. she introduces characters you've never heard of ("that's when mary so-and-so dropped in on the castle in france." who the heck is mary so-and-so???) and you're at the mercy of her whims, and likely her memory. i couldn't even get through her first marriage before i had to put the book down for good.
i started out thinking that she must have been a woman of class and intelligence to win the respect, friendship- and courtship- of so many important artistic figures of her day. however, upon reading this, i suspect she was only a woman of privledge who bought her place in the art society.
try a biography by an actual writer, not a remniscent "art addict," it may prove more interesting. easier to read, at least.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Life with the rich and decadent
By dikybabe
I was intrigued to learn that the lead character, Poppy, of Laurie Graham's "The Great Husband Hunt" was based on none other than Peggy Guggenheim. And liking the fictional account, I worked through amazon.com to obtain Guggenheim's autobiography.
This is like visiting with a very self-absorbed woman, worldly and amazingly stupid in the realm of her rights to not be abused. She is victim to her own acceptance of licentious living and drunken behavior, as her first husband Lawrence Vail, batters her on a too regular basis. Peggy, a daughter of privilege, an American Jew, is one of three sisters. And her most greatly beloved sister, Benita is dead too young, though a young adult, before Peggy can fully reconnect with her. Peggy is a mystery to me: A wealthy woman who succumbs to her husband's wishes in many ways, and yet seems to ask for the brutal assaults on her person. She is not at all concerned about her moral behavior. Her personal lust for life and any man, often an artist, is blatant. I am not trying to place Puritan values on her; after all, she lived well and long, into her '80's. But she did sacrifice a possible conventional lifestyle for one in which she had numerous liaisons with Bohemian life across Europe. She was miraculously saved from being confined to a German concentration camp, but was eager to return to Europe and live amidst the dangers of German invasion and occupation.
In this giant mix, Peggy accumulates art, modern art, drastic, avant garde works, and amasses a collection that makes her famous. Because of her last name, she is possibly best connected to the collections of her uncle Solomon, who had Frank Lloyd Wright design and execute the construction of the famous Guggenheim Museum in New York City. And, indeed, her collection is now housed there, rather than in her beloved Venice, where she lived out her final years.
This volume, "Out of this Century" changes its tone dramatically when it ends the lively personal chatter of the first 320 pages, which were published in 1946. With the final 64 pages, the reader becomes acquainted with the older Peggy, now past 80 years of age, and her narrative is preoccupied with her listing of her travels and her life in her beloved palazzo in Venice, a living museum.
The photos and prints of art included in the book give life to the people who seem to be "characters". Peggy Guggenheim's addiction to art is almost a sideline to her addiction to the Bohemian lifestyle that she indulged in at the highest level her money could buy. She did experience a life of wealth, but was subject to the control of men even though she paid their way. What a strange life she knew. But she did indeed foster the work of many renown artists of the modern movement. And that was a passion for her that went beyond her sexual encounters with the artists and their circle.
Peggy Guggenheim was certainly not the conventional woman of home and hearth of her time period. To say that she was completely selfish and self-absorbed would be unfair, as she did help many people with her money. But she was no philanthropic giantess.
If you are fascinated by the lives of the rich and famous, although you may never have heard of Peggy Guggenheim, you will enjoy learning about her in her own words. Do not confuse her with the museum her uncle's money built, however, for she considered it to look like a parking garage with ramps for its patrons to view the works therein at a postage stamp distance. However, she did finally house her collection there, after her own death.
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