Download or read book Mistress of Modernism written by Mary V. Dearborn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.