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Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book "At Taliesin" written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects newspaper columns written by Wright and his assistants on their work and their ideas.
Author : William R. Drennan
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299222109
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Death in a Prairie House written by William R. Drennan and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West written by Kathryn Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243804
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Wright and New York written by Anthony Alofsin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353650
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Plagued by Fire written by Paul Hendrickson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright.
Author : Frances Nemtin
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin written by Frances Nemtin and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taliesin -- the country estate built by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1911 and 1959 -- has been a self-sufficient farm complex, a boarding school, a world-class architectural studio, and a fellowship for the study of architecture. What was it like to be a part of this vibrant community, to work in close association with the preeminent American architect? Author Frances Nemtin, currently the long-time manager and designer of the Taliesin flower gardens, joined the fellowship in 1946 after she met Wright while arranging a show of his work. Rich in anecdote and precise in description, her charmingly discursive tour of the fellowship includes rarely seen photographs and paintings from the fellowship archives evoking the beauty of Taliesin in all seasons, and the excitement of living in proximity to genius.
Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141396946
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Book of Taliesin written by Rowan Williams and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Tennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to a lost world of deeply buried folkloric memory. He is a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the British Isles; a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology; a 6th-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's compilation in 14th-century North Wales. He is, above all, no single 'he'. The figure of Taliesin is a mystery. But of the variety and quality of the poems written under his sign, of their power as exemplars of the force of ecstatic poetic imagination, and of the fascinating window they offer us onto a strange and visionary world, there can be no question. In the first volume to gather all of the poems from The Book of Taliesin since 1915, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's accessible translation makes these outrageous, arrogant, stumbling and joyful poems available to a new generation of readers.
Author : Ezra Stoller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 9781568982021
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West written by Ezra Stoller and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Blocks series presents icons of modern architecture as interpreted by Ezra Stoller, whose photography has defined the way postwar architecture has been viewed by architects, historians, and the public at large. Taken just after the completion of each project, these photographs provide a unique historical record of the buildings in use, documenting people, fashions, and furnishings of the period.
Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167222
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Wright on Exhibit written by Kathryn Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago Architectural Club, 1894-1914 -- The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1893-1930 and Modern Architecture : International Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 1932 -- Broadacre City, 1935 -- Museum of Modern Art, 1933-53 -- The Italian exhibition and Sixty Years of Living Architecture, 1951-56 -- Coda: 1957-59 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Chronological list of exhibitions -- Appendix B. Chronological list of models
Author : Priscilla J Henken
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393733807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Taliesin Diary written by Priscilla J Henken and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society's 2013 Book Award of Merit, the first publication of the diary of a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, 1942–43, with notes, contextual essays, and contemporaneous photographs. Priscilla J. Henken lived at Taliesin with her husband David as part of The Fellowship, the group of acolytes who made Taliesin an architectural colony from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her lively description of day-to-day life on a communal working farm in south central Wisconsin provides unique insights into the world of Wright during the period and will fascinate Wright enthusiasts as well as those with specialized interest in midcentury architecture; social and spiritual movements; and the clash of cultures represented by two socialist, Jewish New Yorkers and the Midwestern farm community at Taliesin. Henken vividly describes the daily program, from cooking duties to editing the great architect’s autobiography and watching films. The internecine battles of the apprentices and the contentious relationship between Wright, the apprentices, and his third wife, Olgivanna Lazovich, enliven the account. Annotations supplement the diary, and accompanying essays by several scholars explore the cultural history of the period.
Author : Roger Friedland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061875260
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Fellowship written by Roger Friedland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Matthews
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892818693
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Taliesin written by John Matthews and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain and Celtic shaman, was a historical figure who lived in Wales during the latter half of the sixth century. His verse is established as a direct precursor to the Arthurian Legends--and Taliesin himself, is said to be the direct forebear to Merlin. The author presents completely new translations of Taliesin's major poems in their entirety, uncovering the meanings behind these great works for the first time.
Author : John Rattenbury
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Living Architecture written by John Rattenbury and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by the author and other architects who studied and worked with Wright, Taliesin Architects has remained true to Wright's principles and philosophy of organic architecture principles explicated here and illustrated with 47 representative design projects executed between 1959 and 2000. The pro
Author : Earl Nisbet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Taliesin Reflections written by Earl Nisbet and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression, there were few clients coming to Frank Lloyd Wright for designs, so he turned to writing and lecturing. In 1932, he and his wife, Olgivanna, began the Taliesin Fellowship where 30 apprentices came to live and learn from the most influential and imaginative architect of the Twentieth Century. Earl Nisbet was one of those apprentices and Taliesin Reflections relates some of the day-to-day activities that occurred in the Taliesin Fellowship.
Author : Tobias S. Guggenheimer
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Taliesin Legacy written by Tobias S. Guggenheimer and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stephen R. Lawhead
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061802328
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Taliesin written by Stephen R. Lawhead and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent epic of cataclysmic upheaval and heroic love in a breathless age of mythic wonders It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While, across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis. From the award-winning author of THE DRAGON KING TRILOGY comes a majestic tale of breathtaking scope and haunting beauty. It is the remarkable adventure of Charis—the courageous princess from Atlantis who escapes the terrible devastation of her land—and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. A story of an incomparable love that joins two astonishing worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawns the miracles of Merlin . . . and Arthur the king! TALIESIN “Reminiscent of C. S. Lewis . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600224
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.
