Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings, Vol. 5 (1949 - 1959)

Brooks Pfeiffer, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0847818551 / ISBN 13: 9780847818556

Published by New York, Rizzoli, 1995

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352 pages with many coloured illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings, Vol. 5 (1949 - 1959)
• Publisher: New York, Rizzoli
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847818551
• ISBN 13: 9780847818556
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Wie neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Ohne Schutzumschlag
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Synopsis

In the early fifties, he is honored both nationally and internationally with a large retrospective exhibition of his work that travels throughout Europe, displaying his unquestioned brilliance in one prestigious venue after another, beginning, ironically enough, with the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and passing from there to the Kunshtaus in Zurich, one of the few modern buildings in Europe that he unequivocally admired.

From Library Journal

This volume contains the last ten years of the writings of Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)-including the famous works "The Natural House" (1954), "A Testament" (1957), and "The Living City" (1958)-which are a mixture of rehashed ideas, the reworkings of earlier published pieces, and fanciful explorations into the concepts of truth and beauty. Little new is revealed to the Wrightian scholar by these later works. Yet this last volume cannot be dismissed. As one reads these essays, earlier thoughts and beliefs of Wright, first discovered in the earlier volumes, regularly reemerge and remind the reader of Wright, great influence in art and architecture. Ultimately, this book's value lies in its comprehensiveness (even the banal is included). Together with the four preceding volumes (Vol. 1, LJ 9/1/92; Vol. 2, LJ 2/15/93; Vol. 3, 1994; Vol. 4, 1994), this is indispensable to any scholar of American art or architecture or student of Wright's philosophy. Recommended as a set for public and academic libraries.
Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu
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