Anatomy of Flowering Plants: An Introduction to Structure and Development

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In the third edition of her successful textbook, Paula Rudall provides a comprehensive yet succinct introduction to the anatomy of flowering plants. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the book covers all aspects of comparative plant structure and development, arranged in a series of chapters on the stem, root, leaf, flower, seed and fruit. Internal structures are described using magnification aids from the simple hand-lens to the electron microscope. Numerous references to recent topical literature are included, and new illustrations reflect a wide range of flowering plant species. The phylogenetic context of plant names has also been updated as a result of improved understanding of the relationships among flowering plants. This clearly written text is ideal for students studying a wide range of courses in botany and plant science, and is also an excellent resource for professional and amateur horticulturists.

Developmental Biology Of Flowering Plants

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Developmental Biology Of Flowering Plants
V. Raghavan
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387987819

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The study of plant development using molecular and genetic techniques is rapidly becoming one of the most active areas of research on flowering plants. The aim of this book is to present a sense of the accomplishments of the past and of the outstanding problems of the future in the study of plant development. An important feature of this book is the integration of results from molecular and genetic studies on various aspects of plant development in a cellular and physiological context. Of particular interest to readers will be the clear treatment of each landmark stage in the life cycle of plants such as seed germination, seedling growth, flowering, gametogenesis, pollen-pistil interactions, embryogenesis, fruit ripening, and seed and bud dormancy. The book also considers the development of individual plant organs such as the shoot, leaf, root and flowers as well as alternate developmental strategies of plants.

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Comprehensive review.......2001-05-02

This is a good book for advanced botany and plant biology students. The author has a comprehensive literature review.

Analysis of Growth and Development in Xanthium (Developmental and Cell Biology Series)

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Analysis of Growth and Development in Xanthium (Developmental and Cell Biology Series)
Roman Maksymowych
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Anatomy of Flowering Plants: An Introduction to Structure and Development

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Anatomy of Flowering Plants: An Introduction to Structure and Development
Paula Rudall
Manufacturer: Edward Arnold
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ASIN: B000QY876O

Development in flowering plants (Current concepts in biology series)

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Development in flowering plants (Current concepts in biology series)
John G Torrey
Manufacturer: MacMillan
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Development in Stamens of Viola Odorata (Dissertationes Botanicae)

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Development in Stamens of Viola Odorata (Dissertationes Botanicae)
H. Olsen-Cisel
Manufacturer: Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd
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Release Date: 1983-10-30

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Development of Flowering Plants
John G. Torrey
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
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ASIN: 0024209600

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The Development of Flowers
Richard I. Greyson , and Carl N. McDaniel
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover

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This unique volume presents a developmental view of the flower and its organs in contrast with more traditional treatments of phylogeny and comparative morphology. Individual chapters on the perianth, androecium, and gynoecium explore the flower's four organ types from the perspectives of organ initiation from the floral meristem, and organ growth, differentiation, maturation and function. The many illustrations highlight potential candidates as "model systems." Also explored are the developmental aspects of inflorescences and the flowers of grasses, highlighting flower and inflorescence development in Zea, Triticum, Orqza, and Lolium. The book concludes with a discussion of the partial processes and components of flower development which might be considered as sources of morphogenetic and developmental control. In addition to the critical genetic components, the roles of plant growth substances, organelles, and microtubules and microfibrilar components of wall placement are reviewed. The author persuasively argues that flower development is best interpreted as a multidimensional, interactive process in which many potential points for control of individual minor reactions can be identified. This book is a must for researchers and students in botany, plant molecular biology, and plant physiology.

Double Fertilization: Embryo and Endosperm Development in Flowering Plants

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Double Fertilization: Embryo and Endosperm Development in Flowering Plants
Raghaven V.
Manufacturer: Springer
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"Double Fertilization" provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of this central event in the reproduction and development of flowering plants. Written by Val Raghavan, The Ohio State University, an acknowledged expert in plant developmental biology, the book vividly describes the molecular and cellular steps of the unique and complex fertilization process that culminates in the formation of embryo and endosperm, focusing on the latest results from the model plant Arabidopsis. The text is complemented by excellent illustrations, including 16 color plates.

Since embryo and endosperm constitute the edible parts of many seeds and grains widely used in human and animal nutrition, an understanding of the fertilization process has great relevance for genetic engineering aimed at improving the nutritional quality of crop plants. This book is ideally suited to researchers and graduate students seeking a coherent view of current perspectives on embryogenesis and endosperm development in flowering plants.

Floral Biology Pollination and Fertilisation in Temperate Zone Fruit Species and Grape

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Floral Biology Pollination and Fertilisation in Temperate Zone Fruit Species and Grape

Manufacturer: Akademiai Kiado
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Traditional walking tours of New York City lionize the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they've left behind. Rarely seen are the emblems of those buried in their wake -- the people who fought the establishment, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York City, political activist Bruce Kayton leads readers to monuments of these lesser-known heroes. Through Kayton's lens, the history of New York's neighborhoods is the history of class struggles, civil rights battles, and labor movements, and the 12 provocative, educational tours presented here provide for many an eye-opening afternoon. Readers visit Emma Goldman's home in the East Village, Langston Hughes's house in Harlem, the site of Mabel Dodge's salon, the apartment where John Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, the site of Margaret Sanger's first birth control clinic, Black Panther headquarters, and many more little-known points of interest. From Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, Kayton's tours provide a new perspective on the history of both New York City and American radicalism. This edition includes new stops, post-September 11 changes, and a new foreword by Pete Seeger.

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you don't have to be a radical to enjoy this book.......2006-06-19

This is a guidebook with a hard left political point of view on absolutely everything (as in communist or anarchist, not liberal). Not to be alarmed, however. My evaluation of the book is especially for those, like me, who do NOT share these views. Rather than off-putting, I found Kayton's historical comments to be concise, virtually always intersting, and highly relevant to an appreciation of the neighborhoods in question. The Greenwhich Village walk, for ecample, focuses on sites that have been the homes of famous leftists (John Reed, Emma Goldman, the Rosenbergs), left-leaning writers (Edna St. Vincent Millay), alleged bad guy capitalists (Mayor Jimmy Walker, Mayor Ed Koch), as well as important places in the history of labor (the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire), abolitionism, civil rights, gay rights (the Stonewall Inn demonstrations), and anti-war protest. The slice of New York history that these places represent comes alive from a perspective that resembles the participants'. Finally, Kayton's humor and energy more than outweigh the silliness of some of his views. I recommend it if you're looking for something different.

Disappointing.......1999-10-21

I wanted more information on the events and places than he provided. No doubt that Mr. Kayton is a terrific tour guide and NYC needs more scholarly guides; the typical guide in this great city is HORRENDOUSLY inept and ignorant. Other parts of the city, aside from the Lower East Side and Villages should have been covered - I can't imagine that no radical never called Murray Hill, Times Square, Turtle Bay, etc., home.

Fascinating As Browsing History or NY Introduction.......1999-07-07

I've tried several of Bruce's actual Radical Walking Tours, which he still conducts in person. He researches, writes and organizes his work better, or more consistently, than he sometimes delivers it in person. But they are always stimulating as social history, leftist political history, labor and industrial history, and even humor. Easily among the best tours I've tried here in NYC and I've tried several.

Many "stops" in his tours have changed my very sense of certain NYC blocks & neighborhoods.

This book is also fascinating browsing history as well as one of the coolest specialty travel guides I've looked over. Good for new and veteran New Yorkers alike.

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For a dozen years, up to the dawn of a new millennium, Paul Helmke led Fort Wayne as mayor of Indiana's second-largest city. It was a time the community grappled with a flood of drugs, escalating crime, an eroding tax base, a flight to the suburbs and downtown decay. And it was a time when the politician's controversial alliances with such notables as Bill Clinton made him a pariah within his own Republican party. Get a behind-the-scenes look in Helmke's own words at the players and events that helped shape Fort Wayne's future.

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A scenic but cryptic view of a very disturbed mind

The not so secret life of Chris Waits

Excellent storytelling

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No Excuse for Ted

Unabomber: The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski
Chris Waits , and Dave Shors
Manufacturer: Farcountry Press
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A scenic but cryptic view of a very disturbed mind.......2007-08-24

A cryptic but scenic window into the clandestine side of the life, times, and the surroundings of the very disturbed mind of the Unabomber. Told by a friend as it was lived secretly by Harvard Math whiz kid and genius UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Theodore Kaczynski for more than 25 years in the mountains and environs of Lincoln, Montana.

The reader should be warned that this book is not high academic political science or a learnt psychology treatise: Just the basic outlines of a life lived on the edge of American civilization: the bare bone facts with occasional speculation as to what Ted was up to, or usually down to, during his hermitically sealed life away from normal society.

Chris Waits came about as close to a friend as Kaczynski was ever likely to have. Yet, for 25 years Kaczynski succeeded in remaining an elusive enigma even to Chris, his only friend and closest neighbor as he went about his calculated mission of committing the most horrendous of evil deeds. Chris helped Ted; allowed him to roam about his gulch; and then after Ted's arrest, helped the FBI uncover a treasure trove of evidence against him -- catalogued and detailed by Ted himself in such a meticulous fashion that only a compulsively twisted mind could have maintained it. Had Ted gone to trial, his own archive would have indicted and convicted him.

It included, among many others things, Ted's secret cabin in which 22,000 pages of notes chronicling every evil deed committed -- including a vast amount of local vandalism was found. It chronicled how and why they were conceived, fashioned and delivered. Plus lists and schemata of his experiments, portions, machining techniques, wiring diagrams, etc. and Ted's own secret classification scheme and evaluation of his handy work: Altogether, a truly astounding window into a very, very disturbed mind.

The book details how a truly evil mind, operating passive aggressively behind a screen of contrived sanctimonious principles about the evils of technology, and on the margins of society, works. All of the well-known clichés about genius being a close cousin of insanity and about its huge capacity for evil apply here. But it must also be said, if only in passing, that another unstated subtext of the book leaves us with a larger more disturbing message about our society in general that cannot continue to be ignored:

It is that the growing isolation, disconnectedness and alienation in American society is becoming the incubator if not the mainspring for turning large reservoirs of passive aggressive hatred, resentment, and thoughts of entitlements and revenge into an engine that drives impulses towards terrorism.

Whether it be a one man terrorist cell as in the case of a Ted Kaczynski or a Timothy McVeigh, and Rudolph Roberts, or a group coalescing around a committed but perhaps misguided idea, such as the white supremacists groups and militia of the Mid-West, larger and larger numbers of people are starting to feel that there is no legitimate avenue of expression or release from what they perceive as the oppressive conditions of our society?

Whenever and wherever passive-aggressive hatred and resentment meets with a "felt sense of entitlement" and this sense is combined with a religious-like (and sometimes even religious) justification that can be used as cover, the jig is up: Any kind of action no matter how evil can then be justified in the name of a supposed higher moral principle.

One can argue that with this tried and true formula, the threats of internal terrorism from the likes of Ted Kaczynskis, Timothy McVeighs, and Rudolph Roberts is equal to that posed by outside groups like al Qaeda.

In the end, Kaczynski's main request, to publish his meandering anti-technology tract was yielded to anyway, but after 25 years, untold mayhem, death and injuries. And then it was agreed to under duress. Why not have a forum and a newspaper devoted exclusively to the open expression of any and all cockamamie ideas and grievances? Would that not serve as a release valve for some of the pent up frustration of the increasing number of alienated activists? This in some weird sense can be seen as enlightened democracy too.

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The not so secret life of Chris Waits.......2006-02-09

Although, in general, I enjoyed this book, I (also) got tired of (supposed) writer, Mr. Waits, lauding himself and how (now that he was armchair quarter backing) he knew more than Ted, the FBI and and town locals - combined. He paints himself as the smartest hero in this book - heck, any book. He plays classical piano, speaks several languages and is skilled in most earth sciences. Yet, Mr. Waits never puts two and two together - that when a new weirdo moves into town - construction equipment and cabins start being destroyed, animals begin turning up dead or tortured and at least one person is shot in the back (of this small mountain community) and that it just may be... the NEW LOCAL WEIRDO committing these crimes. Hello! Because the local area and topography itself is so interesting and the little glimpses of Ted are fascinating I was able to make it to the end of this short read. But, I also got tired or hearing Mr. Waits grandstanding.

Excellent storytelling.......2005-08-12

Great job capturing the complexity of the situation and awesome depictions of the wilderness

Want a book about Unabomber or the Author?.......2004-03-27

See the title? Well with this book you get to know an awful lot (repeatedly) about how the author new the forests betterthan the unabomber...ad nauseam. This is a book about the author, about 85% and very little about Ted Kaczynski. When you have tired for the umpteenth time of how but for the author we may never have found "Ted's Secret Cabin" you will have to seek out other books to find out about the unabomber.
Is it me but why have the last two books I bought from American authors (last one supposed to be about Tim McVeigh) all about themselves and not the subject matter? Very very tedious book and to be avoided if you want to know much about the unabomber but great if you want to learn how skillful and terrific the author is.

No Excuse for Ted.......2003-11-03

but hey, this Chris Waits is a fascinating guy. Made for interesting reading and emphasized how the rich yuppies are really messing up the great wide open spaces.

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GREAT IDEAS IN THIS BOOK!

not to my liking

A range of bag projects use traditional and novelty yarns

Lots of Fun designs!

Pursenality Plus: 20 New Felted Bags
Eva Wiechmann
Manufacturer: Martingale and Company
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ASIN: 1564776530

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Knitters who had never "felt" this kind of fashion before are now hooked—they want more Pursenalities! This popular author is back with more fabulous knit-and-felt bags, along with fresh ideas for a "purse-onal" touch.

• Twenty all-new purses, bags, and totes feature seasonal colors and styles

• Bag embellishments range from grommets, pockets, and buckles to beautiful felted flowers

• Fast projects are worked on big needles with 100% wool and a splash of novelty yarns; easy step-by-step instructions make felting a breeze

• Bonus—includes patterns for a cell-phone holder, an eyeglasses case, and a cosmetics pouch

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GREAT IDEAS IN THIS BOOK!.......2007-09-11

Just recently I purchased the first book the author wrote on felting purses,
I liked that book for many reasons, one of which the purses were quite quick to knit up and I was planning on knitting some for gifts~

This book however,,is for purses and totes for ME!
Yes, some are more time consuming but they are SO different and look SO professionally done its easy to see that the author did pour her heart into designing these lovely creations!
I cant understand how a reviewer can say that NONE of the ( many styled) bags were to their liking , because there are so many different styles to choose from!
Add to that the infinate choices of yarns available and anything can be done!
I LOVE this book,,,and will save it for bags that I want to have that extra panache ,, knowing full well that I STILL am using stash yarns ~and coming up with some mighty classy bags!

not to my liking.......2007-01-20

As I turned the pages I did not like any of the bag patterns so decided I did not want to own the book.

A range of bag projects use traditional and novelty yarns.......2006-04-20

Eva Wiechmann's PURSENALITY PLUS: 20 NEW FELTED BAGS shows how to knit and few felt bags. There are over ten styles encouraging a range of looks and materials plus patterns for add-ons such as a cell phone holder or eyeglasses case. Projects on big needles explore both traditional and novelty yarns and accompany large-size clear color photos of finished results with tips on pockets, embellishments and more.

Lots of Fun designs!.......2006-02-02

I was really disappointed in her first book. The first book had very basic patterns that I felt I could have figured out without a pattern book. They also had that quirky homemade look. THis book is much more chic and interesting. The construction techniques, colors, shapes, and hardware on all the purses in this book are wonderful. I can't wait to get my needles out and try some of the designs in this book. I also can't decide which one to do first. The designs are not too quirky, yet not boring either, with a good range of shapes, and patterns. Also there are great ideas for using chains, buttons and other hardware on the purse.

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The most invaluable gardening tool of all: if you want to know what’s going on—and what’s going wrong—in your garden, this guide to maintenance, prevention, and dealing with pests and diseases will tell you. It includes advice on recognizing plant diseases, interpreting the symptoms, and keeping a healthy garden. An entire section focuses on individual problems.

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2007 edition available as an eBook

This sure ain't no bargain

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Great book to have if you want to be knowledgeable about paractical toddler products

Toddler Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on Toddler Furniture, Clothing, Shoes, Travel Gear, Toys and More (Toddler Bargains)
Denise Fields , and Alan Fields
Manufacturer: Windsor Peak Press
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Updated version of previous Toddler Bargains books

Shows parents how to get the most out of their money

Shows parents the best bets for numerous items including booster seats and lunch boxes

Twelve chapters total

Nearly 300 pages of information

ASIN: 1889392162

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Toddler Bargains is one of the top parenting books around. It is an enormous resource for parents interested in finding the best deal and getting the most out of their money. The book is so popular that it has requred a second edition to keep parents updated. It is co-authored by Denise and Alan Fields, each of whom have authored the Baby Bargains Book. The Toddler Bargains Book from Windor Peak Press actually answers questions a parents may have. This book will be able to answer all of the questions the parents have and then some.

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2007 edition available as an eBook.......2007-05-08

I haven't had time to read through it yet. But the Baby Bargains book was pretty helpful (though too dependent on the anecdote in some cases). I'm hoping this will be similar.

I downloaded the 2007 edition from the Baby Bargains website since the print version offered at Amazon is 3 years out of date. The eBook is in PDF format and readable by any computer with a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. It's also cheaper than the paperback.

On the plus side you can do immediate text searches within the book and you could print out just the relevant info for your shopping trips. On the negative side, you won't have a copy to casually flip through. Everytime, you'll need to boot up your computer or PDA (or PSP running a homebrew PDF reader).

This sure ain't no bargain.......2006-05-29

I hated the baby bargains book but this one is WORSE. My pediatrician gave it a hands down and his only comment was "a few authors trying to make a buck."
They obviously have no research in this book because they recommend products that are not even age appropriate. These authors have little credibility in my eyes and according to other reviewers, it seems the same. I was never a bargain shopper, really, I mean who is unless you have to be! But, if I was, I don't see this book as a bargain.

Love all of these books.......2006-04-02

I started with Baby Bargins and moved on to this one, I love it...as a new mom it saves me so much time and money.

Good resource.......2006-03-08

While we did not use this book as much as we did the Baby version, it still had some good information. The companion website is also invaluable.

Great book to have if you want to be knowledgeable about paractical toddler products.......2005-08-09

A great book to have if you want to be smart about what to buy, when there are so many baby products out there. Please note that this is for toddlers aged 2-5. If you have a younger child, it's better to buy a "Baby Bargains" book. Great info on various brands and ratings of both domestic and imported baby gear and apparel, including clothing, shoes, strollers, etc. Some of the information is not necessarily about saving money, as the authors also review posh items, but they also give you great tips on when to buy discounted stuff and get brand name things for less. Overall, a useful book.

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Art, sex and high psychological drama!

A Life Devoted to Sex and to Art

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A Superlative Study of a Legendary Lady!

Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
Anton Gill
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Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century.

After her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic, the young heiress came into a small fortune and left for Europe. She married the writer Laurence Vail and joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her.

In the late 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works, buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was a vital part of the new American abstract expressionist movement.

Meticulously researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts.

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Huge Disappointment!.......2003-03-07

After anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book, it was so disappointing to realize that I was forcing myself to read it! The book reads like a term paper with so many quotes from PG's own book that I was wondering why I had not bought that one instead. Several friends have also attempted to read this book and just can't get past the first half. You have to be dedicated and determined to get through this one!

Art, sex and high psychological drama!.......2002-08-20

I could not put this book down. I read it straight through over two days in complete fascination. A woman who so deeply influenced art of the 20th century and nourished improtant artists when they were unknown so that they could keep working, and yet so insecure, so troubled, so unsure of her own knowledge and taste. An exquisite portrait of this flawed and fabulous character. I am thrilled that the aucthor has created such a thorough and penetrating biography - Peggy certainly deserves it!

A Life Devoted to Sex and to Art.......2002-05-06

The name Guggenheim is well known among museums and among art collectors. One thinks that all those Guggenheims were pretty well off, but everything is relative, and there were rich Guggenheims and poor ones. Benjamin Guggenheim in 1912 dressed in his best formal evening clothes, heroically helped women to climb into the lifeboats of the _Titanic_, and then drowned. He left half a million dollars to his family, but it was the legacy of a poor Guggenheim, not a rich one. His daughter Peggy managed to take her share, and independently of the other collectors in her family, made a highly-regarded collection of early twentieth century art. It was a great accomplishment. She also took plenty of lovers, many of them famous, which is somewhat less of an accomplishment. She was a reprehensible mother, and pinched pennies in ways that would make those around her uncomfortable. She was a contradictory bundle, and now a fun, big, gossipy biography, _Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim_ (HarperCollins) by Anton Gill, has put bright light on all the facets. It isn't always an uplifting story, but it sparkles.

Peggy was fourteen when her father drowned; Gill argues that she was always looking for a father figure after that. Her sexual enthusiasms may have been driven also by fretting over her looks; she was a good-looking woman with a fine physique, but she had a nose which one unkind friend (and she had many of those) said looked like an eggplant. She had two marriages, both to artists, the second one to the famous surrealist Max Ernst, but both were painful. She took hundreds of lovers, most of whom meant little but a night of fun. Someone asked her later in her life, "How many husbands have you had, Mrs. Guggenheim?" and the typical, sharp, self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing answer came: "D'you mean my own, or other people's?" She was far luckier in her pursuit of art (rather than of artists). As years went on, she referred to her collection as "my children" and showed more interest in caring for it than she did for the flesh-and-blood version. She was able to buy art from artists who are now household names before they became so, and before art prices skyrocketed. Her sponsorship of Jackson Pollock is a lasting imprint on American art. Although her famous collection of surrealist and cubist works is now widely appreciated, not everyone felt it was a success. When she welcomed the critic Bernard Berenson to it in 1948, she gushed, "Mr. Berenson, you were the first person to teach me about painting," to which Berenson replied, "My dear, what a tragedy that I wasn't the last."

The Tate Gallery in London had enough enthusiasm earnestly to try to acquire her collection (it did do restoration work), but because of her legal and personal problems, the deal never went through. Tellingly, she could not finally compete with the resources of her uncle Solomon's foundation and museum. She had made her Palazzo Leoni one of the high points to visit in Venice (where it contrasted with the ancient city to good effect), and upon her death, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation took it over as a public museum. Peggy died in 1979, and her cremated remains were interred near her collection, and also near her beloved dogs' resting place, but far away from any friends or relatives. She had done well with dogs and art, and not much more. It was an eccentric and unique life, often successful, but encompassing a good deal of lost opportunities and sadness. This generous but by no means fawning biography is a pleasure to read because it is full of fascinating detail, scandalous stories, and coruscating bon mots.

A LASTING MEMORIAL.......2002-05-01

I never really knew who Peggy Guggenheim was until I visited her home filled with art: the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice, Italy. The gardens and terraces as well as all the rooms open to the public are filled with wonderful examples of the modern art collected by Guggenheim, including, tellingly, a larger-than-life white statue of a horse situated outdoors on the main terrace overlooking the canal. The horse has a happy male rider. The rider sports a large erection.

So who was Peggy Guggenheim? Anton Gill goes a long way to providing her with a lasting memorial but far from a stuffy one. His well-researched, entertainingly and wittily written book ART LOVER is a fascinating read. Guggenheim was not one of the wealthier Guggenheims; her Dad went down on the Titanic and she was left with a goodly sum of money, but far from the vast fortunes her relatives had. And so, as Richard Adler & Jerry Ross said about their heroine, Lola, in "Damn Yankees," Guggenheim used "A Little Brains, A Little Talent (With An Emphasis On The Latter)." She had, according to her own account over one thousand "sexual liasons" with men as famous as Samuel Beckett and as nasty and vicious as her alcoholic first husband who emotionally and physically abused her.

She knew she was not a great beauty (in fact in one of the terrific photos collected for the book she resembles Dame Edna!)so she used her brains and superb taste and knowledge of a true bargain to collect art from men as diverse and influential as Brancusi, Mondrian, Pollock, Duchamp and Ernst (her second husband), most of which were purchased during World War 2 when so many artists were fleeing Europe and selling their works cheaply.

Peggy Guggenheim was a true American original who led a wild life of art, society and sexual high-jinks in several countries and she has left us, at least, a wonderful, wonderful gallery of modern art in a Venetian palace, most of us can only dream about living in. Gill has done her proud. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

A Superlative Study of a Legendary Lady!.......2002-04-12

With equal parts wit and scholarly research, author Anton Gill uncovers Modern Art champion Peggy Guggenheim. Never hesitant to present all sides of this complex character, Gill renders a multi-faceted portrait of one of the most significant figures of the 20th century art world. Bravo!

Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim

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Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
Anton Gill
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA985Y

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