Vivien Greene

A Facsimile Edition of a Small Story Book Written for Graham Greene by his Wife, Vivien

Laurel for Libby

Kenneth E. Silver

Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond

The Salon de la Rose+Croix : the religion of art / Vivien Greene -- The reception of the Rose+Croix of a symptom of the réaction idéaliste / Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond -- Afterlife : The important and sometimes embarrassing links between occultism and the development of abstract art, ca. 1909/1913 / Ken E. Silver

The Salon de la Rose Croix in Paris, 1892-1897

Mystical Symbolism

“She was born in the year of the second Great Exhibition and she was run over by a tradesman’s bicycle in 1934—a long life for a cat. There were all sorts of mysteries about her. . . .” So begins Laurel for Libby, a beguiling previously unpublished story by Vivien Greene, the wife of acclaimed author Graham Greene. First presented by Vivien to her husband as a tenth-anniversary gift, the original text is reproduced here for the first time in her own legible hand, accompanied by her own charming drawings as well. This little book chronicles the many adventures of Libby, the oldest cat in Bristol, who lived with the same family all her life through four major wars, the Peace of Berlin, and the Treaty of Versailles. Given different names by a succession of cooks and family owners over the years, she never had kittens, and thus a question mark always hung over her sex. Greene follows this mysterious feline and her many exploits over seven decades of British life, offering a whimsical and ultimately timeless story that is sure to delight cat lovers of all ages on both sides of the Atlantic.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Claudia Salaris

Published to accompany the exhibition Italian Futurism, 19091944: Reconstructing the Universe opening at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2014, this catalogue will advance the scholarship and understanding of this influential yet little known twentieth-century artistic movement. As part of the first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States, the multidisciplinary publication examines the historical sweep of the movement from its inception with F. T. Marinettis Futurist manifesto in 1909 to its demise at the end of World War II. Presenting over 300 works executed between 1909 and 1944, the publication encompasses not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theatre and performance.

Reconstructing the Universe

Italian Futurism 1909-1944

Margaret Towner

Tells the story, in the author's own words, of Vivien Greene's historic dolls' house collection in her garden museum in Oxford. The text contains fully illustrated views of all the antique houses and their contents.

The Vivien Greene Dolls' House Collection

Ellen McBreen

Karole Vail

A visual biography of the great patron and collector This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to which she would continue to add for the rest of her life. The selections from her collection, emphasizing lesser-known works, are accompanied by a series of previously unpublished photographs from her life during periods spent living in London, Paris and her native New York, as well as Venice, where she settled with her collection in 1949 and spent her remaining 30 years. Each period of Guggenheim's life is examined through contributions from 13 international scholars and researchers, which, along with the photographs, provide new insights into her colorful and impressive career building one of the world's most significant and widely visited personal art collections.

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