“Art of This Century is inseparable from Peggy Guggenheim’s claim to a place in the history of twentieth century art” wrote Guggenheim Foundation Director Philip Ryalnds in 2004. Opened by in 1942 at 30 West 57th Street, New York, Art of This Century was both a commercial gallery and an exhibition space which displayed Peggy Guggenheim’s permanent collection. This book, first published in the same year the gallery opened, served as a catalogue to the permanent collection exhibited at Art of this Century. This 1968 Arno Press reprint is a perfect facsimile of the original, including reproducing Max Ernst’s line drawing specifically designed for the yellow cloth cover.
The book includes a foreword by Peggy Guggenheim, followed by three prefaces by André Breton, Jean (Hans) Arp and Piet Mondrian. The plates section is followed by an appendix which includes: full text of the Manifesto of The Futurist Painters (1910), Gabo and Pevsner’s Realistic Manifesto (1920), Max Ernst’s Inspiration to Order (1932), Notes on Abstract Art by Ben Nicholson (1941). Artists include Alexander Archipenko, Jean (Hans) Arp, Constantin Brâncuși, Georges Braque, André Breton, Alexander Calder, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Robert Delaunay, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Charles Howard, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Man Ray, Louis Marcoussis, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Jean Metzinger, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Amédée Ozenfant, Wolfgang Paalen, Antoine Pevsner, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Yves Tanguy, and Laurence Vail.
Title: Art of This Century. Objects - Drawings - Photographs - Paintings - Sculpture - Collages. 1910 to 1942
Author: Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Arno Press, New York,
Publication Date: 1968 (first published in 1942)
Format: hardcover, yellow cloth boards with a design by Max Ernst
Pages: 156pp.
Images: illustrated in b/w
Condition: very good. Light spotting to covers. Otherwise a firm, sound and clean copy.
Stock Number: RB05819
To request further images email info@roomandbook.co.uk
“Art of This Century is inseparable from Peggy Guggenheim’s claim to a place in the history of twentieth century art” wrote Guggenheim Foundation Director Philip Ryalnds in 2004. Opened by in 1942 at 30 West 57th Street, New York, Art of This Century was both a commercial gallery and an exhibition space which displayed Peggy Guggenheim’s permanent collection. This book, first published in the same year the gallery opened, served as a catalogue to the permanent collection exhibited at Art of this Century. This 1968 Arno Press reprint is a perfect facsimile of the original, including reproducing Max Ernst’s line drawing specifically designed for the yellow cloth cover.
The book includes a foreword by Peggy Guggenheim, followed by three prefaces by André Breton, Jean (Hans) Arp and Piet Mondrian. The plates section is followed by an appendix which includes: full text of the Manifesto of The Futurist Painters (1910), Gabo and Pevsner’s Realistic Manifesto (1920), Max Ernst’s Inspiration to Order (1932), Notes on Abstract Art by Ben Nicholson (1941). Artists include Alexander Archipenko, Jean (Hans) Arp, Constantin Brâncuși, Georges Braque, André Breton, Alexander Calder, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Robert Delaunay, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Charles Howard, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Man Ray, Louis Marcoussis, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Jean Metzinger, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Amédée Ozenfant, Wolfgang Paalen, Antoine Pevsner, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Yves Tanguy, and Laurence Vail.
Title: Art of This Century. Objects - Drawings - Photographs - Paintings - Sculpture - Collages. 1910 to 1942
Author: Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Arno Press, New York,
Publication Date: 1968 (first published in 1942)
Format: hardcover, yellow cloth boards with a design by Max Ernst
Pages: 156pp.
Images: illustrated in b/w
Condition: very good. Light spotting to covers. Otherwise a firm, sound and clean copy.
Stock Number: RB05819
To request further images email info@roomandbook.co.uk
