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Books We Love: Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (2015) By Francine Prose, Yale University Press, 211 pp.   Best-selling author Francine Prose, known for nonfiction titles like Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and Reading Like a Writer, wrote a heartfelt biography of Peggy Guggenheim, influential art collector, and early promoter of Modernism in America. Well-ahead of her time, Peggy developed a taste for … Continue reading Books We Love: Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose

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What Is Art All About?

Everything we do is a matter of taste and training – I’m paraphrasing physicist Brian Greene, author of “The Elegant Universe.” How we then form appreciation for and understanding of aesthetics? The individual journey to learning and self-discovery is what forms and cultivates one’s taste. What is art? Roy Lichtenstein argued that “Organized perception is what art is all about.” Émile Zola thought that art … Continue reading What Is Art All About?

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