Wright and New YorkAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 25 June 2019
Description
A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the cityâ?Ts role in establishing the career of Americaâ?Ts most famous architectâ?oTraces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village."â?"Patti Smith, New York Times Frank Lloyd Wright (1867â?"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. A Wright denounced New York as an â?ounlivable prisonâ?? even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wrightâ?Ts work in the desert and in the â?oorganic architectureâ?? he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wrightâ?Ts life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy. A 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 Wrightâ?Ts 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.
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
25 Jun 2019
Biography: general
€32.18
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
01 Apr 2012
History of art
€42.12
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
01 Nov 2006
Architecture
€88.92
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
26 Oct 1999
Individual architects and architectural firms
€72.54
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews