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Art Lover: A Biography of
Peggy Guggenheim
by Anton Gill
Guggenheim, a classic "poor little
rich girl," was known as much for her sexual
exploits as for her championing of modern art, a
fact Gill examines with candor, sensitivity, and
mellifluous grace. After her father died aboard
the Titanic when she was 14, Guggenheim evolved
into a lonely, rebellious young woman painfully
self-conscious about her less than perfect
appearance and therefore burdened.
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The Sexual Life of
Catherine M.
by Catherine Millet
Millet, art critic and editor of
Art Press, has become a literary sensation in
France with the publication of this graphic
memoir of some 30 years of her sexual adventures.
Millet's "gift for observation" and her
"solid superego" are as useful in her
career as an art critic as they are in her erotic
explorations: her ability to concentrate and
observe puts her inside "other people's
skins." Comparisons have been made to The
Story Of O, but Millet is more in the tradition
of Jean Genet and Violette Leduc...
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