Main entry:

McCarter, Robert, 1955-

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright / Robert McCarter.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2006.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

Critical lives

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222).
Introduction: Wright at the defining moment -- 1. Unity and nature's geometry -- 2. Chicago and the tradition of practice -- 3. White city and new world monumentality -- 4. Prairie house and the progressive movement -- 5. Europe and the shining brow -- 6. Eastern garden and western desert -- 7. Fellowship and the disappearing city -- 8. Natural house and the fountainhead -- 9. Usonia lost and found -- Epilogue: Wright in the rearview mirror.

Summary:

"Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to have been every possible angle. But this book is the first to focus on Wright's professional persona - that of an architect and designer enmeshed in a web of connections between prominent public figures and competing ideologies. Robert McCarter distils Wright's life and work into a concise account that explains both the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architecture and interior design." "McCarter explores Wright's relationships with key leaders of art, industry and society, and how their views came to have solid significance in Wright's work and writings. In addition, he dissects Wright's idealistic passions, not least his belief in the ethical duty of architects to strive to advance society and culture. This is a superb account of the dynamic relationships and principles that lie at the base of a modern master's inventive success, from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim Museum."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1861892683 (pbk.)
9781861892683 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architects
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
United States

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Critical lives.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245139
Call No.: BIB 174791
Status: Available