Frank Lloyd Wright And Taliesin
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Author | : Kathryn Smith |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1997-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
A special highlight is the chapter on Wright's collection of Asian art, which was reputed at one time to be among the largest and finest in the United States, and today consists of screens, woodblock prints, sculpture, ceramics, rugs, and textiles.
Author | : William R. Drennan |
Publisher | : Terrace Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-01-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780299222109 |
The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and "love cottage" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others). Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association
Author | : Frank Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Collects newspaper columns written by Wright and his assistants on their work and their ideas.
Author | : Anthony Alofsin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300243804 |
An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion). Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.
Author | : Roger Friedland |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2009-03-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0061875260 |
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces—Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum—were born. Drawing on hundreds of new and unpublished interviews and countless unseen documents from the Wright archives, The Fellowship is an unforgettable story of genius and ego, sex and violence, mysticism and utopianism. Epic in scope yet intimate in its detail, it is a stunning true account of how an idealistic community devolved into a kind of fiefdom where young apprentices were both inspired and manipulated, often at a staggering personal cost, by the architect and his imperious wife, Olgivanna Hinzenberg, along with her spiritual master, the legendary Greek-Armenian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff. A magisterial work of biography, it will forever change how we think about Frank Lloyd Wright and his world.
Author | : Frank Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas D. Hayes |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0299331806 |
Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period.
Author | : Olgivanna Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | : Antique Collector's Club |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architects' spouses |
ISBN | : 9781939621597 |
Weaves a narrative from Olgivanna's previously unpublished autobiography, together with vignettes from her other writings books, newspaper columns, and presentations.
Author | : Tobias S. Guggenheimer |
Publisher | : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
In this monumental book, the author unveils hundreds of photos and original interviews tracing the careers of thirty architects who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Among those interviewed are Fay Jones, Aaron Green, John Lautner, Anthony Putnam, Paolo Soleri, and Edgar Tafel. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Brendan Gill |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1998-08-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780306808722 |
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works—among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum—earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most entertaining account of Wright to date, but also strips away the many masks the architect tirelessly constructed to fascinate his admirers and mislead his detractors. Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and 300 photographs and drawings, this definitive biography makes Wright, in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest, fairly leap from its pages.