Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Name: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary
Released: November 6, 2015
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 68

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Submarine Deluxe | Release Date: November 6, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Lisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut "Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel" with PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT. A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved throughLisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut "Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel" with PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT. A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo. [Submarine Deluxe]… Expand

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Steven Rea

Dec 3, 2015

Richly informative and fascinating. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Nov 12, 2015

Lisa Immordino Vreeland deftly choreographs the story in her vibrant documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, at once a capsule history of Modernism and a poignant personal portrait. Read full review

Empire Ian Nathan

Dec 7, 2015

By smuggling canvasses out of Nazi Paris, she was “midwife” to Pollock and Rothko. “Art,” the doc claims, “was a mirror of her own strangeness.” Read full review

Marsha McCreadie

Nov 3, 2015

Guggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the rest of us the film might stir wishful nostalgia for a breakthrough time in cultural history. Read full review

John DeFore

Nov 6, 2015

In a brisk hour and a half Vreeland gives a good sense of her impact, while telling stories of so many love affairs and ego clashes Art Addict never feels a bit like a history lesson. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Nov 19, 2015

If the documentary isn’t especially deep, maybe that’s because its subject wasn’t. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Nov 4, 2015

"Art Addict” may be encyclopedic, but it’s all-too-rarely insightful. Read full review

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John935

Nov 6, 2016

Home runsville, people! Fabulous! Was she an artist? No. Did she have some problems? Yes. But she was indisputably a "midwife"' of modern and contemporary art, and this documentary is vivid proof of that. Fascinating subject and the film captures her beautifully, her importance and ... her.Home runsville, people! Fabulous! Was she an artist? No. Did she have some problems? Yes. But she was indisputably a "midwife"' of modern and contemporary art, and this documentary is vivid proof of that. Fascinating subject and the film captures her beautifully, her importance and ... her. Essential for anyone interested in 20th cenrury art. Enthusiastically recommended.… Expand

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Brent_Marchant

Jan 19, 2016

An insightful, informative and highly entertaining profile of an eccentric doyenne of the art world. The film's meticulously organized format, coupled with its incisive wit, poignant expert interviews, carefully selected archive footage and vast array of examples from the protagonist'sAn insightful, informative and highly entertaining profile of an eccentric doyenne of the art world. The film's meticulously organized format, coupled with its incisive wit, poignant expert interviews, carefully selected archive footage and vast array of examples from the protagonist's artwork collection, make Ms. Guggenheim come to life as a readily identifiable, fleshed-out persona. A fun offering in a genre often beset by overly serious. stodgy releases.… Expand

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