{"product_id":"9780547523767","title":"Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe life story of the bohemian socialite who rebelled against her famous family and became a renowned art collector.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peggy Guggenheim was the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the \u003ci\u003eenfant terrible\u003c\/i\u003e of the art world. Her visionary Art of This Century gallery in New York, which brought together the European surrealist artists with the American abstract expressionists, was an epoch-shaking “happening” at the center of its time.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMistress of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary V. Dearborn draws upon her unprecedented access to the Guggenheim family, friends, and papers to craft a “thorough biography . . . [that] will appeal to art lovers interested in more than the paint” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). “With drive and clarity, Dearborn charts Guggenheim’s peripatetic life,” offering rich insight into Peggy’s traumatic childhood in German-Jewish “Our Crowd” New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her caustic battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites (her lovers included Max Ernst, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Duchamp, to name just a few) (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e). Here too is a poignant portrait of Peggy’s last years as \u003ci\u003el’ultima dogaressa\u003c\/i\u003e—the last (female) doge—in her palazzo in Venice, where her collection still draws thousands of visitors every year.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMistress of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e is the first definitive biography of Peggy Guggenheim, whose wit, passion, and provocative legacy Dearborn brings compellingly to life.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123824214256,"sku":"9780547523767","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547523767_p0.jpg?v=1769916927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547523767","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}