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Article: An artless life that made art available for all: Peggy Guggenheim knew more about paintings than love.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 30, 2002
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Byline: Laura Claridge
At first glance, biographies about flamboyant figures seem ripe for enjoyment, both for their writers and for a public eager to experience vicariously the highjinks of spirits unburdened by the chains of conventions. But a life of glamorous escapades frequently reduces, under the microscope of close reading, into a mere patchwork of anecdotal living.
Such is the case with Anton Gill's admirable "Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim." Clearly written, scrupulous in its assessment of virtue and vice, thorough in its coverage of a long life ranging over various continents and concupiscence, the book falls flat for those of ...
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