Title: Frank Lloyd Wright /
Authors: Secrest, Meryle.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Wright, Frank Lloyd,; Architects United States Biography
Abstract: The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson and of Kenneth Clark gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan, Frank Lloyd Wright. Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright in full scale - the brilliant, outrageous, fascinating man; the giant who changed modern architecture; the standard-bearer for the new, quintessentially American vision; the artist who never, during a seventy-year career, abandoned his principles of design; the radical, the.
Contents: 1. Bedd Taliesin: Taliesin's Grave -- 2. The Black Spot -- 3. The Shining Brow -- 4. Aladdin -- 5. Lieber Meister -- 6. Sermons in Stones -- 7. A House Divided -- 8. Flower in the Crannied Wall -- 9. Lord of Her Waking Dreams -- 10. The Cauldron -- 11. The Cause Conservative -- 12. A Stern Chase -- 13. Truth Against the World -- 14. Work Song -- 15. The World's Greatest Architect -- 16. Taliesin -- 17. Broad Acres -- 18. The Revolutionist as Architect -- 19. That Strange Disease, Humility -- 20. The Shining Land.