Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
Autor Meryle Secresten Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 1998
A biography of the master architect that Time said was “the best so far” and Library Journal called "a spellbinding portrait
Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius architect and the provocative con-man.
The result is the most engaging and thorough account ever of Wright's life, work, and professional and personal circle, a gripping account of a complicated, challenging genius.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226744148
ISBN-10: 0226744140
Pagini: 652
Ilustrații: 121 halftones
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226744140
Pagini: 652
Ilustrații: 121 halftones
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
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Cuprins
Acknowledgments
1. Bedd Taliesin: Taliesin's Grave
2. The Black Spot
3. The Shining Brow
4. Aladdin
5. Lieber Meister
6. Sermons in Stones
7. A House Divided
8. Flower in the Crannied Wall
9. Lord of Her Waking Dreams
10. The Cauldron
11. The Cause Conservative
12. A Stern Chase
13. Truth Against the World
14. Work Song
15. The World's Greatest Architect
16. Taliesin
17. Broad Acres
18. The Revolutionist as Architect
19. That Strange Disease, Humility
20. The Shining Land
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
1. Bedd Taliesin: Taliesin's Grave
2. The Black Spot
3. The Shining Brow
4. Aladdin
5. Lieber Meister
6. Sermons in Stones
7. A House Divided
8. Flower in the Crannied Wall
9. Lord of Her Waking Dreams
10. The Cauldron
11. The Cause Conservative
12. A Stern Chase
13. Truth Against the World
14. Work Song
15. The World's Greatest Architect
16. Taliesin
17. Broad Acres
18. The Revolutionist as Architect
19. That Strange Disease, Humility
20. The Shining Land
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“The best [biography] so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact.”
“An engaging narrative.”
“A spellbinding portrait.”
“An extremely engaging profile.”
“Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . [She] presents Wright in his every guise.”
“The real triumph of this biography . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life and his architecture.”
“Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative.”
“An engaging narrative.”
“A spellbinding portrait.”
“An extremely engaging profile.”
“Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . [She] presents Wright in his every guise.”
“The real triumph of this biography . . . is the link it makes between Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life and his architecture.”
“Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative.”