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Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern - Jewish Lives Condition:Well Read Strauss discusses the work ofOne of twentieth century Americas most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (18981979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum in Venice, Italy, remains one of the worlds great collections of modern