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Article: Twentieth century girl; Peggy Guggenheim - A Celebration. By Karole P. B. Vail (Abrams, pounds 32). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- April 24, 1999
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Peggy Guggenheim was one of those seminal women of the 20th century (she would have reached her own century last year had she lived) whose perception of the "continental drift" of 20th century art shaped our perceptions of the creativity of major artists working in Europe over a 50-year span, like no other woman of her time.
Guggenheim was outrageous, over-sexed, emotionally unstable, ebullient, destructive, seriously rich and - certainly in the matter of sniffing out genius - quite brilliant.
She did for modern society quite as much as the zip fastener and ...