The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art
Contributors: Sandro Rumney (Foreword); Paola Gribaudo (Editor)
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: October 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780847823796
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Permanent Collection Catalogs; Art Patronage; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / History / General; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); General
Description: "Through several essays and extended captions, every aspect of Guggenheim's collection, which was donated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1979 after her death, is explained. The breadth of the collection is astonishing: from the earliest examples of abstraction by Piet Mondrian to the controlled abandon of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings (whose career she single-handedly launched), her intuition regarding the important trends was almost clairvoyant."--BOOK JACKET.