Wright Studies, Volume One: Taliesin, 1911 - 1914 - Softcover

Menocal, Professor Narciso G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809316250 ISBN 13: 9780809316250

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This inaugural issue is devoted to studies of Taliesin I. Designed and constructed in 1911 upon Wright’s return to Wisconsin from Europe, Taliesin I burned in August 1914. It thus became the most difficult Wright residence for Wright scholars to examine.

In this volume’s critical essays, Neil Levine offers a view of the different layers of meaning of Taliesin I; Scott Gartner explains the legend of the Welsh bard Taliesin and its meaning for Wright; Anthony Alofsin considers the influence of the playwright Richard Hovey and the feminist Ellen Key on Wright’s and Cheney’s thought of the period; and Narciso G. Menocal suggests that the Gilmore and O’Shea houses in Madison, Wisconsin, are a collective antecedent to Taliesin I.

To conclude the volume, Anthony Alofsin has written what amounts to a catalogue raisonné of the drawings and photographs of Taliesin I. Surprisingly, he finds no photographs of the living area and argues that those that have been published are in fact of Taliesin II.

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About the Author

Narciso G. Menocal is a professor of architectural history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Architecture and Nature: The Transcendentalist Idea of Louis Sullivan and Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture (with Robert Twombly). He is the editor ofJohn Lloyd Wright’s My Father Who Is on Earth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809316250
• ISBN 13: 9780809316250
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152