
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become 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 trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pol... (Full plot summary below)
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become 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 trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, 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, which is today enshrined in her famous Venetian palazzo. The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.
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| The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldMs. Vreeland has paced her documentary well, a chapter to each era, with hundreds of beautiful images spanning decades of artists, galleries, parties, scenes. She also makes good use of interviews Guggenheim gave to a biographer a couple of years before her death in 1979. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabImmordino Vreeland tells [Peggy Guggenheim's] story in a lively way, combining gossip, name-dropping and frothier elements with a serious appraisal of her contribution to art history. |
| NewcityRay PrideA brisk, neatly constructed look behind the life of the late heiress who became one of the twentieth century's most proficient wheelers and dealers at the top end of the art market, collecting art, but also artists along the way. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThere's an essential sweetness to "Art Addict," despite its ribald tales and rich settings. Peggy Guggenheim simply loved art. |
| Winnipeg Free PressAlison GillmorPeggy Guggenheim: Art Addict brings some balance to Guggenheim's spectacular bio. While listing off the many men - and occasional women - Guggenheim slept with, this documentary amply demonstrates that her one true love was art. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAs this film’s engrossing character study makes clear, this woman of extraordinary tastes and appetites was ahead of her time, in more ways than one. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawThis is an extraordinary story: I was on the edge of my seat. |
| The Arts DeskMarina VaizeyIt is a unique story, and brilliantly shown. |
| Willamette WeekEnid SpitzEven the most casual art users could easily be hooked by the story of this enfant terrible. |
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherIntelligent and inventive, the director Lisa Immordino Vreeland refuses to be hamstrung by chronology and instead pulls Guggenheim's rich and bohemian life apart and into big, thematic chunks. |