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HAND SIGNED Growing up Guggenheim - A Personal History by Peter Lawson-Johnston

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Item specifics

Condition
Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9781932236576
EAN
9781932236576

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Regnery Publishing
ISBN-10
1932236570
ISBN-13
9781932236576
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44673952

Product Key Features

Book Title
Growing Up Guggenheim : a Personal History of a Family Enterprise
Number of Pages
225 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, Modern / 21st Century, Business, History / General
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Peter Lawson-Johnston
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Width
7 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-921372
Reviews
"A splendid book, original, readable, dramatic, and instructive. Here is a book autobiographical in form but focusing not so much on the author as on the institution associated with his family's famous name: Guggenheim. We learn of the idea of the museum, of the ambitious and sometime irritating developers of it, of the triumph of the museum built by Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, and its eye-stopping successor in Bilbao. The development of museums, at the hectic and yet inspired pace at which they are being created, is a part of the American story: and here is a brilliant tale of a remarkable institution." - William F. Buckley Jr., "Growing up Guggenheim is a tour de force, an enthralling story told with a directness that combines candor, humor, insight and reflection. Peter Lawson-Johnston has proven the brilliant shrewdness that led Harry Guggenheim to pick him, an unheralded cousin, to lead a new generation of an extraordinary family. The author's talent has ennobled the entire clan Guggenheim and has enriched the worlds of art and business with an entrepreneurial energy and commitment that presents a magnificent challenge to those who succeed to his responsibilities." - William J. vanden Heuvel, former U.S. Ambassador, European Office of the United Nations, "This is a can"t put it down? book of extraordinary and surprising revelations by a Guggenheim about the private lives of that fabulous and opulent family." - Walter Cronkite
Dewey Decimal
929.2
Synopsis
In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston, a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture, shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy. In addition to first-hand biographical accounts of his grandfather Solomon Guggenheim (the museum's founder), his cousin Harry (Solomon's successor), and his famously rebellious cousin Peggy (whose magnificent Venice art collection he helped bring under New York Guggenheim management), the author tells the stories of long-time museum director Thomas Messer, who initiated the bold expansion of Frank Lloyd Wright's original museum building, and current director Thomas Krens, whose controversial tenure has featured such innovations as the Guggenheim's wildly successful first international outpost in Bilbao, Spain, and exhibits devoted to fashion and motorcycles. Lawson-Johnston also traces his own career, from his first job as sales manager of a remote feldspar mine, to his rapid ascent to the family summit, to his extension of the Guggenheim legacy in ways none of his predecessors could have envisioned. Despite his native and tangible humility, this evocative narrative makes clear Lawson-Johnston's indispensable role as the loyal steward of one of America's most famous family enterprises.
LC Classification Number
CT274.G84L39 2005

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