Wright and New York : the making of America's architect / Anthony Alofsin.

Main entry:

Alofsin, Anthony, author.

Title & Author:

Wright and New York : the making of America's architect / Anthony Alofsin.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-320) and index.
Introduction -- Points of departure -- Fleeting glances -- Nadir -- Refuge -- Urban visions -- Desert dialogue -- Spinning tower -- Command performance -- Pivot point -- Wright as writer -- Phoenix rising -- Zenith -- Epilogue -- Chronology.

Summary:

"Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Wright denounced New York as an "unlivable prison" even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in the desert and in the "organic architecture" he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright's life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright's life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

9780300238853 (hardcover)
0300238851 (hardcover)
9780300256949 (paperback)
0300256949 (paperback)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Homes and haunts New York (State) New York.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Homes and haunts New York (State)
Homes.
New York (N.Y.) History 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire 20e siècle.
New York (State) New York.

Added entries:

Making of America's architect

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304798
Call No.: BIB 250514
Status: Available

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