Volume 49, Number 11 · June 27, 2002
Modern Art Groupie
By John Russell
Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
by Anton Gill
HarperCollins, 480 pp., $29.95
For much of her long lifetime, Peggy Guggenheim was the archetypal 'celeb'—a person, that is to say, who is known for being known. In the gossip that never spared her, there was buzz but little substance, and envy but no insight. Stories about her were told and retold at third or fourth hand, worldwide, but they were often baseless to begin with. The gossip shows no sign of subsiding. Such is the bulk, and such the almost day-by-day coverage of Peggy Guggenheim's life, that Anton Gill's four-hundred-thirty-seven-page biography could be renamed 'The Way We Lived Then.'
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