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^ Read * Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography by Meryle Secrest ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography She presents Wright in his every guise."-Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune"An extremely engaging profile."—The Philadelphia Inquirer"A spellbinding portrait."—Library Journal"The best biography so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact."—Time. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's
| Title | : | Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226744140 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 652 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
Fast!! FAST delivery. Excellent product!. Precious little discussion of Wright's work A Customer Secrest's "biography" focuses exclusively on the personal life of Wright, and to that end it seems fairly complete. Secrest attempts to explain Wright's inflated sense of self, his drive to succeed and his willingess to use others as means to his ends by reflecting on his Welsh background, his family's history in Wisconsin and his relationships with his immediate family, particularly his mother. My complaint is that Secrest does not carry this analysis over to his architecture - most of his works receive a paragraph or less. I was hoping for a biography of Wright that placed his work in an socio-histo. M. A Newman said Prairie interests. This is an excellent book by Meryle Secrest on Frank Lloyd Wright. It traces the career of America's foremost builder from his days in Chicago as a resident in fashionable Oak Park to his final days on the Arizona desert. Ms. Secrest does not specialize in architecture, but this appears to be an asset. While there are plenty of books that can go on (and on and on) about building techniques, this is intended for the lay person who is interested in Frank Lloyd Wright in general terms. This book provides an excellent introduction to both the man and his work.
She discusses the dynamics of the architect's three marriages, recounts his clashes with Louis Sullivan and Lewis Mumford, and digs beneath his "quasi-mystical Celtic beliefs" to pinpoint the multiple influences on his fervent quest for an organic architecture. A definitive portrait of a mercurial titan. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Drawing on a trove of letters, Secrest ( Salvador Dali ) traces Wright's "secret conviction of worthlessness" to the contradictory influences of his freethinking, erratic Welsh mother and his jealous, spendthrift father, a New England minister. BOMC and QPB al
She presents Wright in his every guise."-Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune"An extremely engaging profile."—The Philadelphia Inquirer"A spellbinding portrait."—Library Journal"The best biography so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact."—Time. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius architect and the provocative con-man."Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative."&mda
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