by Francine Prose · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9791021030824
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«Peggy Guggenheim: Le choc de la modernité» is Francine Prose's biography, published by Tallandier in paperback (320 pages, in French).
Francine Prose portrays Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), an American heiress who amassed a major collection of modern art. The book traces her eccentric life: her relationship with Max Ernst, her Art of This Century gallery, which revealed Pollock and Rothko, and her Venetian palace on the Grand Canal, where she installed her collection.
The French edition from Tallandier was published on April 12, 2018; the English original appeared in 2015 under the title Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern.
For readers interested in biographies, art history and twentieth-century collecting.
Francine Prose is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is writer-in-residence at Bard College and is a former president of PEN American Center.
