Volume 26, Number 18 · November 22, 1979
La Dogaressa
By John Richardson
Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict
by Peggy Guggenheim
Universe Books, 396 pp., $17.50
Rich and eccentric expatriates on the more peculiar shores of art and letters are taking the place of the Bloomsberries on publishers' lists. The American 'Amazons'—Natalie Barney, Romaine Brooks, and Princesse Edmond de Polignac—have all been the subjects of recent biographies, and even the creepy Crosbys continue to have their day. Caresse Crosby's diverting autobiography The Passionate Years has just been reissued by Ecco Press in a welcome series devoted to 'neglected books of this century.' And now another long out of print account of a rich woman's exploits in high bohemia, Peggy Guggenheim's Out of This Century, has reappeared—emended, expanded, and dolled up with a lot of inappropriate period typography. However, Gore Vidal's backward-looking foreword is a decided bonus.
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