Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

I've only browsed this book rather than examining it straight through, but it starts out with an overview essay, then follows up with eye candy from the late 1800's and early 1900's. Despite the cover, the volume does not limit itself to impressionism but includes all genres of painting as well as sculpture. If you like this time period, you will enjoy thumbing through this book.

The Biennial Hugo Boss Prize is awarded to “an artist whose work represents a significant development in contemporary art.” The Hugo Boss Prize 2002 book presents work by the six finalists: Francis Alÿs, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong-a, & Anri Sala. The book incorporates diverse content: artist-designed pages, essays, artist biographies, and curatorial text.

In Art at the Crossroads the dimension of art at the turn of the century is discussed in depth ans satisfactorily. "Die Lebensreform (publ. 2001)" is congrent with this volume regarding art matters, but it covers a much wider range of changes in the human mind and in human society around 1900.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March-May 1987 and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, October 1987-January 1988.
This exhibition presented art that Peggy Guggenheim either showed or owned, but no longer in the possession of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Nearly sixty works were on view, all of them at some time acquired or exhibited by Guggenheim in her gallery “Art of This Century.” This show sought to unveil new show more facets of Peggy’s commitment to the visual arts and of her dynamic activity as a promoter of modern art.

The exhibition illustrated the profound influence of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) on the art world of her time and will feature works she exhibited at her New York gallery, Art of This Century, from 1942 to 1947, as well as works she donated to museums and art galleries principally in America, in an effort to promote modernism.

Today Peggy Guggenheim is best known for her splendid collection of twentieth century art that is maintained in her name by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Gran Canal of Venice. However, during her lifetime, particularly in the 40s and 50s, she was better known as the owner-manager of her gallery, Art of This Century in New York. It was here that several artists of the ‘heroic’ period of the development of American modernism were given their first one-man exhibitions: Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, among others. Peggy pursued a policy of encouraging young artists while at the same time exhibiting great masterpieces of the recent European avant garde that still today form the core of her collection. Meanwhile she continued to donate works of art to museums, from Boston to San Francisco, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv. Such donations served to spread the knowledge of a new generation of American artists as well as to provoke still-conservatively inclined museum directors to begin acquiring and exhibiting twentieth century art.

Included in the exhibition will be 56 paintings, sculptures and works on paper borrowed from public and private institutions in Europe and the United States. The majority of these have never before been on public display in Italy. Fred Licht, Curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and Melvin P. Lader, Associate Professor of Art History, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., are the joint curators of this exhibition which was first presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, March 6 – May 3, 1987. show less