Frank Lloyd Wright's stained glass &.. lightscreens / by Thomas A. Heinz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinz, Thomas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Glass art--United States.

Glass art.

Glass painting and staining--United States.

Glass painting and staining.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 132 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Stained glass &.. lightscreens

Stained glass and lightscreens

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, Utah : Gibbs Smith, 2000.

Summary:

In captivating color photography and well-researched commentary, Tom Heinz captures the essence of Frank Lloyd Wright's genius and his fascination with the interplay of light and shadow in an exquisite representation of Frank Lloyd Wright's lighting treatments.Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass & Lightscreens features not only Wright's iridescent stained glass but a sweeping range of his "lightscreens," Wright's term for his designs that capture the essence of both light and shadow. These screens were not intended to obscure the window view but to modify and focus it through framing. Wright's abstraction of patterns and geometry from nature--plants and flowers--resulted in imaginative stained-glass designs. While he is best known for his stained glass set in metal frames, he also created screens in cut wood, concrete, and terra-cotta. Thomas A. Heinz, AIA, has been involved with the restoration of more than forty Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and is the author of twenty books on Wright. He is also coauthor with Randell L. Makinson and principal photographer for Greene and Greene: The Blacker House and Greene and Greene Creating a Style. He lives in Mettawa, Illinois.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Before Wright 17

Chapter 2. Traditional Beginnings 35

Chapter 3. First Experiments in Materials 47

Chapter 4. First Successes in Pattern 57

Chapter 5. Success in Materials 69

Chapter 6. Simple and Less Costly Patterns 91

Chapter 7. Developments in Abstraction 101

Chapter 8. Concrete Lightscreens 107

Chapter 9. Ennis House, Last of the Art Glass 111

Chapter 10. Tubes and Panels 119

Chapter 11. Return to Wood 123.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

087905610X

OCLC:

43333595