In the 1940's New York was the crucible for post-war American and European art, and at the heart of this was Peggy Guggenheim and her remarkable museum/gallery, made instantly the most sensational venue of the avant-garde in New York by Frederick Kiesler's visionary architectural design. This is the never-before-written story of "Art of This ...
A great museum is often the focal point of an artistic metropolis. While Paris is home to the Louvre, London the National Gallery and New York the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paintings in Venice - some of the most important and magnificent found anywhere on the globe - are not housed under a single roof. Instead, the city as a whole is known ...
The book, by illustrating Peggy Guggenheim's life's archivement through photographs, memorabilia and works of art, pays homage to a peculiarity of her collection, which is that it is the expression of an epoch, a milieu in which she thrived, as well as the outcome of her personal talents and determination.
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Arshile Gorky, Philip Rylands, Matthew Spender, Rome (Italy). Assessorato alla cultura, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Italy) Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome
Palma Vecchio (1480?-1528) was a leading painter of the italian Renaissance in Venice. As a contemporary of Titian, his short career unfolded at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Golden Age of Venetian art which includes the work of Palladio, Tintoretto, Sansovino and Veronese. Like Giorgione and the young Titian, Palma participated in a ...
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