{"product_id":"peggy-guggenheim-the-shock-of-the-modern","title":"Francine Prose: Peggy Guggenheim [2015] hardback","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a \"vibrant\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A whirlwind tour in a compact, peppy car through the tumultuous life of the most famous patron of modern art.\"-Prudence Peiffer, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtforum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world's great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim's image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Jewish Lives: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore praise for Jewish Lives:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Excellent.\" -New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Exemplary.\" -Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Distinguished.\" -New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Superb.\" -The Guardian","brand":"Prose, Francine","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48963413115219,"sku":"XV80300203486","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/prose-francine-peggy-guggenheim-the-shock-of-the-modern-xv80300203486-57097176088915.jpg?v=1727947211","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/peggy-guggenheim-the-shock-of-the-modern","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}