Frank Lloyd Wright : the architecture of defiance / Jonathan Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Jonathan, 1782-1861, author.

Series:

The architecture of Wales series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architects--United States--Biography.

Architects.

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2022]

Summary:

The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable - but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood - deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Taliesin, by Gillian Clarke

General Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Family Tree: Significant Ancestors of Frank Lloyd Wright

Introduction

Part 1 The Church in the Wilderness

1 A Rural Enlightenment

2 Bards of Liberty

3 Remittance

Part 2 Lloyd Jones

4 Lessons in the Land of the Free

5 The Valley

6 Anna Had Chosen an Englishman

7 A Child's Garden

8 The Book of Creation

Part 3 Lloyd Wright

9 The Grammar of Ornament

10 Simplicity and Repose

11 Spoiled, First by Birth

12 Art and Craft of the Machine

13 The Protestant

14 The Shape-Shifter

15 The Genius

16 The Unitarian

17 The Welshman

Timeline

Select Bibliography

Image Accreditation

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Adams, Jonathan Frank Lloyd Wright

ISBN:

9781786839152

1786839156 (electronic bk.)