Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: Including an Autobiography: Volume 2, 1930-1932

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks; Frampton, Kenneth, (Intro.)

ISBN 10: 084781548X / ISBN 13: 9780847815487

Published by Rizzoli in Association with The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, New York, 1992

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Oversized hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. Light shelf and handling wear, including minor tannng to jacket. Light wear to board edges, and boards are very slightly bowed. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: Including an Autobiography: Volume 2, 1930-1932
• Publisher: Rizzoli in Association with The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084781548X
• ISBN 13: 9780847815487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
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Oversized hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. Light shelf and handling wear, including minor tannng to jacket. Light wear to board edges, and boards are very slightly bowed. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN

Reviews

In any collected writings of an artist, one must include a very big "bad" with little "goods." In this book, the second of a projected six-volume set (for a review of the first volume, see LJ 9/1/92), the big "bad" is Wright's autobiography, which takes up two-thirds of the book. First published in 1932, this rambling, poorly told, sometimes barely coherent life history has not improved with time. It is surprising that Wright, who wrote forcefully yet lyrically, would record his life in such a dull, self-indulgent manner. Yet this volume is redeemed by the little "goods": the lectures Wright delivered in 1931 at Princeton University and the Art Institute of Chicago. These show Wright at his best, and they aptly summarize thoughts derived from three decades of conscious deliberations as an architectural philosopher and prophet. Recommended for architectural libraries. For more on Wright, see the review of Kathryn Smith's FLW , p. 164.--Ed.
- Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu
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