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As new condition dark blue cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in an as new condition color illustrated dust jacket.
Includes Dedication; Foreword by Josiah Bunting III; Prologue; Epilogue: Global Art as a Family Enterprise; Acknowledgments and Index.
Illustrated with both black-and-white photographs and a section of color photographs.
Signed and inscribed by the author with black pen at the upper section of the full title page.
"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, his evocative narrative makes clear Lawson-Johnston's indispensable role as the loyal steward of one of America's most famous family enterprises.
" - from the inner front jacket flap.
"This is a can't-put-it-down book of extraordinary and surprising revelations by a Guggenheim about the private lives of theat fabulous and opulent family.
" - Walter Cronkite.
"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 sometimes irritating developers of it, of the triumph of the museum built by Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, and its eye-stopping sucessor 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.
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