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Frank Lloyd Wright / Robert McCarter.
Fine Arts Library NA737.W7 M33 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarter, Robert, 1955-
- Series:
- Critical lives (London, England)
- Critical lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959--Criticism and interpretation.
- Architects--United States--Biography.
- Architects.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion, 2006.
- Summary:
- An unforgettable cultural icon who refined both the twentieth-century city-scape and America's suburban and rural landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to have been every possible angle. But this book is the first to focus on Wright's professional persona - that of an architect and designer enmeshed in a web of connections between prominent public figures and competing ideologies. Robert McCarter distils Wright's life and work into a concise account that explains both the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architecture and interior design.
- McCarter explores Wright's relationships with key leaders of art, industry and society, and how their views came to have solid significance in Wright's work and writings. In addition, he dissects Wright's idealistic passions, not least his belief in the ethical duty of architects to strive to advance society and culture. This is a superb account of the dynamic relationships and principles that lie at the base of a modern master's inventive success, from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim Museum.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Wright at the Defining Moment 7
- 1 Unity and Nature's Geometry 9
- 2 Chicago and the Tradition of Practice 26
- 3 White City and New World Monumentality 44
- 4 Prairie House and the Progressive Movement 62
- 5 Europe and the Shining Brow 90
- 6 Eastern Garden and Western Desert 103
- 7 Fellowship and the Disappearing City 120
- 8 Natural House and the Fountainhead 144
- 9 Usonia Lost and Found 171
- Epilogue: Wright in the Rearview Mirror 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222).
- ISBN:
- 1861892683
- OCLC:
- 62761718
- Publisher Number:
- 9781861892683
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